On Sunday 23 March 2003 16:19, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 01:59, Jaakko Prättälä wrote: > > What could I do if I can't set irq's in my bios? > > Jaakko, > Hi. First, what machine are you running and what BIOS does the > machine have? Phoenix? Award? Usually you can set IRQ's, but often the > settings are hard to find. In my machine it's under Advanced->PCI > Configuration. Even though I have this feature, I still recommend that > you should: > > 1) Remove all of your cards EXCEPT graphics, boot and look at interrupt > settings. Write them down or save a file somewhere. It's a laptop :-) hp xe4100, bios is hp's own I think. > 9 is best, followed by 10, etc. > > 10 is as good as 9 if 9 is not used, or only used by acpi support. Taking a look at /proc/interrupts I see that the pcmcia controller is at irq 11, which it shares with eth0 when I'm online. 9 is not used. I guess it's looking ok then. Just have to stay offline when (in the future ;-) I'm using the multiface. Thanks a lot, Mark. I'll be saving this for future reference to wait for the time I'll get a hdsp pci interface for my other computer. Thanks also to Ron for the url. The article was enlightening too. -- Jaakko Prättälä Jaakko.Prattala@xxxxxxxxxxx
