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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:19:11 +0000
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading)
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Mark Vojkovich (mvojkovich@valinux.com) said: 
> 1) Firmware issues that prevent the X-server from working reliably
>    with SMP (even lspci locks up in the SAL code).

There is a kernel patch for this; there's a buffer overflow
in the PCI code. (Unless you are running into something else,
which is possible...)

> 3) The bios not assigning interrupts to cards that need them.
>    My A3 machine will not boot with an NVIDIA card in it for
>    this reason.

Is it sitting behind a PCI card with a bridge on it?

Bill