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Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci



On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 07:31:01PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote:
> Michael Merten wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote:
> > > Two questions,
> > [snip]
> > > Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a
> > > pci card.  I know I have read how to somewhere, but I can't get it
> > > to work.  The problem I am having is that both my graphics card
> > > and my soundcard are trying unsuccesfully to share irq 11.
> > > I can't change it in my bios because the only option is to change
> > > irq 11 from pnp/pci to legacy isa, which moves both to another
> > > interupt, both the same one.
> > 
> > AFAIK, the bios assigns PCI interrupts at boot time.  You should be able
> > to (in CMOS setup) tell the BIOS that certain interrupts are not available
> > (used by isa cards).
> > 
> When I do that both the soundcard and the graphics card go to the next
> interupt, also the same one.
>
You mean, *BOTH* are PCI and are getting the same interrupt?? I've never
heard of that.  PCI are supposed to be assigned on a slot by slot basis.
Have you tried relocating the cards to other slots?  Other than that,
I don't know what to suggest :/

Mike

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