On 2005-04-18 at 20:34+0200 Carsten Koch wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Iirc this is a very old problem with 8259-style > > interrupt controllers. > > OK. > I guess I can swap the network card and the budget card.... > > The strange thing is, I have not had a single "irq 7: nobody cared!" > error under vanilla kernel 2.6.11 (all hardware exactly the same). > Just grepped for it in my logs between February and last Friday. > The problem appeared the moment I installed SuSE 9.3 with the SuSE > kernel. Pure coincedence? Is ACPI different in the SuSE kernel from your earlier one? I had a similar problem (unfortunately I can't remember which kernel versions), and turning off ACPI for PCI on the kernel command line cured it, though with the 2.6.11 RT kernel I'm now running I have no such trouble. -- J?n Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
