[Wolves] Some advice please?

[Peter Evans]

Hi,

I recently upgraded my SuSE 9.1 installation to KDE3.4 and now when I get to 
the splash screen I'm seeing a lot of what look like messages from the 
kernel.

I've found these messages in /var/log/warn and whilst some of them appear to 
be SuSE specific some of them appear to be generic.

So here's my question:

In order to help me help myself does anyone have a decent resource that might 
help me find out what these warnings mean?  At the moment I'm assuming they 
can be safely ignored, since everything appears to be working ok, but I'd 
rather understand them anyway.

I've tried a 'google' and most of what comes back is too specific, I'm looking 
for something that provides a general guide or tutorial on the subject, if 
such a thing exists.

Just as a flavour of what I'm getting here's a brief snippet...

Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 
max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0f.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0f.1 (0000 -> 0002)
Apr 18 08:28:47 frodo kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset, but 
could not find the secondary device.
...
Apr 18 08:28:48 frodo kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error }
Apr 18 08:28:48 frodo kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 
{ DriveStatusError }
Apr 18 08:28:48 frodo kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef
Apr 18 08:28:57 frodo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Apr 18 08:28:57 frodo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
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Regards,

Pete Evans