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RE: Reading BIOS information



Actually I'm looking for BIOS info (as in, what IRQs the BIOS is
reserving, etc.) not PCI info. Thanks though.

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   Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology
        University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
   andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Donald R. Spoon wrote:

:> Greetings folks.
:> 
:> I've been working on getting a new video card installed in my machine, and
:> have what I think is an IRQ conflict (it's PCI, and I think the BIOS is
:> assigning it a shared IRQ, which doesn't make it happy).  What I'm
:> wondering is if there's any way to read information from the system's BIOS
:> (as minor as the BIOS version, or as substantial as the PCI / PnP IRQ
:> settings) from within debian, or if I have to reboot each time.
:> 
:> Thanks.
:> 
:> ---------------------------------------------------------
:>    Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology
:>         University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
:> 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
:>    andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
:
:The command "cat /proc/pci" will give you a readout of what Debian is
:seeing.
:
:Cheers,
:-Don Spoon-
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