I saw this on Fedora kernel 2.6.16-1.2182_FC6, which is based on 2.6.17-rc3, on a Compaq Presario X1050 laptop: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf031f, last bus=3 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C046] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.C046] bus is 0 PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1100-113f claimed by ICH4 GPIO PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#03) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently It said to report it, so I'm reporting it :-) Attached is the dmesg without the option, dmesg with the option, and lspci output. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/