Here are the relevant (and not so relevant but interesting) lines from a dmesg run, 'phro (and thanks for the reply). If there are any other relevant lines or files, I'll spew those, too. During the kernel config process, I found no driver clearly defined for this chipset (not ALi 15xx, but only 14xx drivers), so I installed a generic one. ...any ideas?
--------------------------------------------- Detected 451041303 Hz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) --------------------------------------------- And BTW, you should see this thang compile a kernel! ...less than 10 minutes on a mainboard and processor that were dirt-cheep! Hoowee! :-) Art