Ubuntu 7.10 on Acer 5920

This is an Acer 5920, not 5920"G". Plain old Centrino 5920, no Nvidia graphics.
After some mistakes, I got Vista moved aside and a logical partition all set up for Linux.
Every time I've started a Linux CD in this thing, there was a quick message that said something about
"Cannot allocate resource 7 of bridge..." Four or five alphanumeric characters after the word "bridge", and several lines of this sort of info. I think there was 7, 8, and 9. Not sure because it zoomed past so fast.
I'm sure there's a way to stop it so I can read it but I don't know how.
Anyway, installed using alt-install CD, because that seems to be more reliable than LiveCD's. After install I still got that quick page about "Cannot allocate" and the Gnome desktop crashed the first time. The desktop was up, but features very limited. Restarted, and Gnome works the second time. Still getting the "Cannot allocate" message and it looks like I'm stuck with that for now.
Anyone with any ideas as to what that error message might be referring to?

 

You still have the message but does everything work?

 

Digging up some info. Will post back if anything is helpful

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=628020
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15194

If everything else works, it shouldn't be a problem...

But you could try to type lspci in a terminal; that way you would know the meaning of the IDs.

 

Hi, thanks guys for the replies -
The Gnome desktop seems to be working fine. The lappy is brand new and it's my first laptop, so the newb effect is kicking in here I haven't tested hardly anything but it appears to be functional so far.

I'll try your suggestions to see if I can pin down the source of the messages. I saw something about pulling up /var/logs so I can see the error reports. Will try that too. Know about the logs but haven't spent any time mucking about in them before.