Re: PCI/IRQ hardware question

Rick Miles wrote:
> Further to this thread, the IRQ assignment is a none issue as kernel has irq 
> sharing and in any case dmesg does not indicate final assignment. There's 
> something about IRQ 11 being a "trigger level" and then final assignment 
> happens. I dare not read further into the kernel hacking threads ;0)

Kernel irq sharing in no way implies hardware irq sharing capabilities.

> Tried switching pci cards around but no difference. It appears that this is 
> still an issue with how I've set up for using dvb-t cardaaaand I thought I 
> was getting close. Thats it for tonight. Maybe things'll be clearer tomorrow. 
> Maybe I should just get one of those knoppix/dvb distros and if it works I 
> can reverse engineer the configuration. 

Successive reboots after, swapping hardware locations can often change
things, as can forcing ACPI update, the problem appears to be
BIOS/hardware related as opposed to software/linux.

> One good thing though, it appears that the RTL8100C onboard lan chip has 
> better support and now works without any apparent problem.

But it would still be using an irq..............


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