Messages in this thread | | | From | "Craig Whitmore" <> | Subject | Re: IRQ clash problems with 2.2.14 and 2.3.33? | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:44:33 +1300 |
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I have an ABit bx6 Rev 2 and it has shared 2 interrupts :-( (You have to) one is shared with USB and the other is shared with the AGP Card ARGH
----- Original Message ----- From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: Re: IRQ clash problems with 2.2.14 and 2.3.33?
> Hi David. > > > Unless, of course, the motherboard in question is an Abit BP6. > > In which case, complain to Abit, because even when you tell its > > BIOS that IRQ9 is reserved for Legacy ISA, it puts ACPI there. > > > Shift your 3c509 onto another IRQ and wait for a fixed BIOS. > > > Beware of making PCI IRQs share too much, though - I've found > > that if it tries to make a PCI device share IRQs with the > > on-board USB, then that PCI device can't actually generate any > > interrupts. > > Is this last comment specific to the Abit BP6 or the 3c509, or is it a > general warning relating to any PCI hardware? > > The reason I ask is that I have a system with three PCI Ethernet > cards, all RealTek 8259's using the ne2k-pci driver, and the BIOS for > some reason has put all three on IRQ 9, leaving IRQ's 10 and 11 unused > as far as I can tell. > > Also, is this behaviour to be expected? > > Best wishes from Riley. > > * Copyright (C) 1999, Memory Alpha Systems. > * All rights and wrongs reserved. > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux | > | development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, | > | in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone | > | else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > * http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/Kernel/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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