On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Space Case wrote:

> Well, I replaced the POS Gateway motherboard (too slow) with this thing
> that I'm having a hard time identifying (words on the box and the single
> sheet of documentation contain the words "Socket 7 Series", TX-PRO, TOP
> GUN and M575).  And I also have a Genoa Phantom 3D/DX graphics board.
> 
> In the dmesg output below, you'll see four 'not configured' items:
>  - an Acer Labs 0x1531 host bridge
>  - a S3 0x8a01 VGA display
>  - an Acer Labs M5229 IDE controller
>  - the audio, which has four "not configured" lines itself
> 
> The IDE and graphics seem to work even though it claims they're not
> configured.  How can this be?

To clarify things, what you're seeing is that these devices are not
configured AS PCI DEVICES. To the extent that they have compatability mode
support built in (IDE and VGA especially), they work.

Oh, the userland X server can deal witha  lot of things for which we don't
have PCI drivers.

Take care,

Bill