jordan muscott wrote: > Ok to be honest I'm not gonna switch distros...... but are you saying > that Redhat offers you extra software that allows you to change the > IRQs that your pci cards are on? There is no such software on any distro. Your motherboard's BIOS decides which PCI slots get which IRQs. In a few motherboards the BIOS lets one select which IRQs get assigned to certain slots, but most don't. So with most motherboards all one can do is move cards around to different slots and then see what IRQ gets assigned. If your sound card and your ethernet card are sharing an IRQ, that's because those PCI slots used both have the same IRQ assignment. If you swap just those two cards slot-for-slot they will end up with the same IRQ again. Try moving just one of the cards to another slot. If all of your slots are full then move multiple cards. On some motherboards with some processors you can turn on Local APIC support in your kernel config and get more IRQs to work with. Dual processor motherboards, even if they have only one CPU installed, can do this to get more IRQs. If you have dual CPUs you should already be running a SMP kernel and you probably don't have IRQ assignment problems. If you do, it's back to juggling cards. wes
