On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:47:47 -0400 Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I respectfully disagree; the IRQ is very important to the system! > There's a ton of detail why at > http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/res/irq/func.htm > > It's worth noting that many motherboards have a way of assigning IRQs > to particular slots in the BIOS. That might be what you need to get > IRQ 9 assigned to the sound card. If the 1010 is at 5, which is often > used for the parallel port, just about every other peripheral will be > ahead of it, taking precedence. My bios is especially weird. It assigns irq 5 to my soundcard no matter what slot it is in. But if i insert an scsi adapter it then gets irq 5 no matter what slot and the soundcard gets irq3 no matter what slot. So it seems to assign irq's based on the device class or something. And since 3 and 5 are rather low priority irq's i kinda dislike it. http://roht.informatik.uni-halle.de/~ladischc/pic_priorities.html might help if you use an XT-PIC [dunno if it's safe to use on recent kernels, etc..]. Just tried it and it didn't do anything bad to my system [seemingly]. http://roht.informatik.uni-halle.de/~ladischc/ioapic_priorities.html for APIC systems [don't work with 2.6.x kernels according to author] flo
