Hello I have an old PC, it's an Olivetti M4 (P166) and I tried to install linux on it. But I got a problem: just after LILO has loaded the kernel (after 'Loading......') the screen becomes black and I can't see anything. In other words the video card doesn't seem to work. I also tested tha same system with FreeBSD 4.1.1.1 and it works without problems. I can boot the linux kernel and I can access the system with ssh. I found something interesting. The video card is a PCI Trident 9660 integrated on the mainboard but lspci doesn't show it: fourier:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 02) it doesn't find the PCI card. FreeBSD detects it with the pci id 00:09.0 I tried to boot either a 2.2.18pre17 kernel or a 2.4.0-test11 kernel. No kernel worked. I tried also to change the PCI access: pci access Direct, Any or BIOS... nothing changed... I tried also to compile the vesa framebuffer (as the card should be vesda compliant) but it didn't work. On #kernelnewbies somebody told me to enable the DEBUG definition in the pci subsystem and this is what I get in the dmesg (kernel 2.4.0-test11): PCI: BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xc00fdb50 PCI: BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb60 PCI: BIOS probe returned s=00 hw=01 ver=02.10 l=00 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: IDE base address fixup for 00:07.1 PCI: Scanning for ghost devices on bus 0 PCI: IRQ init PCI: IRQ fixup PCI: Allocating resources PCI: Resource 0000ffa0-0000ffaf (f=101, d=0, p=0) PCI: Sorting device list... Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. On http://www.gest.unipd.it/~iig0573/lspci.txt you'll find the output of lspci -xvv Thanks, Gianluca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/