Hi Andrew,

I am able to boot vanilla kernel without the following option enabled

CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR

If i don't enable the above mentioned option 2.6.4-mm1 won't boot on my 
Laptop

Its Acer 803 LCI

I am attaching my .config lspci.
I am using following gcc version with the latest patch

gcc version 3.3.3

Regards
Subodh Shrivastava

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