Strange Dmesg error

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:58:24 -0400
Dragoncrest <dragoncrest at voyager.net> wrote:

> 	Today after recompiling my kernel I noticed something on my screen that 
> caught my curiousity.  I got the following message:
> 
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0000> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> 
> 	Anyone know what this means?  All I did was add the following lines to my 
> kernel config.
> 
> options         VESA
> device          pcm
> options         PNPBIOS
> options         USER_LDT
> 
> 	Would any of those have generated the said errors, and are they something 
> to be concerned about, or can I safely ignore them?

I don't know what cuases it, but if you remove the "options         PNPBIOS" it will more likely go away. I've seen that to, or atleasst something close to it, and it went away when I removed that line.