and what really sucks is I cant even get into the bios setup proggie since that requires an os supporting realmode dos and I currently have linux installed on this machine. stupid compaq. I'l;l look at their site maybe I can find some kind of bootdisk or maybe (I doubt it though) a bios setup for *nix. well it does say '...if you are using unix, please insert your compaq diag disk..." when I try to enter setup... On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:22:32AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Alex Snow wrote: > > > this is weird bc I thought pci was supposed to assign ircs to the > > hardware in order to prevent conflicts such as those present in > > non-pnp isa... > > It is. Which is why I think it's a little strange. Of course, if you have > an ISA device, it's not very clear to me how to tell the PCI IRQ allocation > process not to use that particular IRQ. > > The weird thing in this case of yours is that IDE controllers are on pretty > standard IRQs and I find it odd that those were allocated to a PCI device. > Perhaps show us the output of "lspci -v"? > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
