PCI intel 440 chipset weirdness

[SteveC]

Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd091, 
last bus=1
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:19.0: secondary 
bus 00
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 00:1a.0: secondary 
bus 01
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 5 of 
device 00:0f.0
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 00:0f.0/1 
(20000408 != 20000008)
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 00:0f.0/2 
(20000808 != 20000008)
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 00:0f.0/3 
(20000c08 != 20000008)
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 00:0f.0/4 
(20001008 != 20000008)
Jan 23 15:14:01 bat kernel: PCI: Error while updating region 00:0f.0/5 
(20001408 != 20000008)

kernel 2.4.17

I look around and found bits like:

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd296ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

The machine seems to behave fine but i took it back to 2.2.whatever 
anyway. Can anyone give me an idea what to do?

have fun,

SteveC [e-mail] fractalus.com/steve