Re: follow-up to /proc files

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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Eva Barcelon wrote:

> > > the reason i want to is because the irq for my intel8x0 is set to 10;
> > > im not getting any sounds and i guess the reason is that the irq
> > > should be set to 9.
> >
> > How did you find out that the irq shoud be set to 9?
>
> when i looked at the config in win2000, the irq is set to 9
> so i guess it should also be the same in linux

It is not mandatory to be the same. In the default configuration, linux
tries to allocate the PCI resources by itself and if this fails it will
use the BIOS default settings. Maybe win2000 uses the BIOS default
settings or it has a different method of assigning the irq's.

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