Your board has APIC enabled. This is an Advanced programmable interrupt controller. They are used on modern boards for smp (multi-processer systems) and for better PCI resource allocation. Your linux kernel has APIC support enabled; see the boot up messages. Windows won't put a soundcard on a high-order irq above 15 becasue dos boxes can't use the card; dos can't hook the hardware irq line from the APIC controller since t he dosbox runs in vm86 mode. Windows XP supports apic and high-order irqs; not sure about windows 98 and below. NT4 doesn't. Either try Windows XP or ME or disable APIC i n bios. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:26:12PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > I know this is off topic a little, but I can't find anything on it. As I > reported previously, when I installed my Linksys NIC, Windows 95 disabled > my sound card and said it has a resource conflict. Linux has had no > trouble with it. Now, I know why. Windows uses IRQs from 1 to 15, while > Linux uses IRQs above 15. For example, my modem is on IRQ 17 and my NIC > is on IRQ 19. It only seems to do this with PCI devices, so I assume it's > a PCI-specific feature. What I'm trying to find out is if any version of > Windows can be made to use high IRQs like that, or where the feature is > explained on a more technical level. I've done searches on various search > engines, but can't seem to find anything. If anybody has a clue on this, > let me know. Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
