Tim, Tim Blechmann wrote: > if i use the second pcmcia slot, i can manage to run the hdsp on irq11 > ... anyway, there are quite a few devices on this irq, too (pcmcia, > on-board sound, usb, eth0) ... on irq5 there are only the pcmcia and the > usb controller ... i suppose it's not possible to get the hdsp to use > another irq than the corresponding pcmcia controller ... if i'm wrong, > please correct me... A few things: 1) I never got a soundcard running proper on IRQ 5. That could be one part of the trouble. Currently my IRQ 9 looks like this: 9: 472 XT-PIC acpi, Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (#2), usb-uhci, usb-uhci, hdsp, ohci1394, Intel 82801CA-ICH3, eth0 And the card seems to run good. IRQ 9 is about the best IRQ you can get for sound, although IRQ 9 without having to share it is even better. 2) Often there is a difference between the two PCMCIA slots in a laptop. One them is a type-1 and one of them is a type-2. I never got results putting my cardbus in the #1, type-1 slot [which incidentally defaults to IRQ 5, hmmmmmm]. Also of note is that a type-2 slot monopolizes the system, and I cannot run a type-1 card in the other slot [Flash memory, wlan, or whatever...] without a kernel freeze when using the HDSP. Be curious to know from some guru here why that is... 3) If your BIOS cannot reassign IRQs, you should try booting with "pci=noacpi" or even "acpi=off" in your grub.conf or lilo.conf. This will keep the ACPI daemon from choosing IRQs for your hardware, and a new, better configuration may accimagically arise. I boot with the first argument, and that is how I got the cardbus on IRQ 9. 4) [This is the extreme solution.] I forget which distro you are using, but I swear to Allah that I *never* could get my cardbus HDSP running with Mandrake or Red Hat. The only distros which worked were Debian and Gentoo [which I use currently]. Voodoo maybe, or it might have something to do with the amount of stuff that gets recompiled under these two distros [specifically kernel and modules for PCMCIA], or it might have to do with some of Man-Hat's "distro-dummy" configuration schemes... who knows? I only know what works... Good luck, D. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 206: "What most recently impressed you? How is it similar? What can you learn from it? What could you take from it?"
