The audio device shares irq11 with the winmodem. So if i want the BIOS to recognise 4 as that of my serial port for the modem, how do i do it? what config file, pls?
From: Roger <morris_r@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: resolving irq conflict Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:57:27 -0700
Around Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:40:03AM +0100, nnameka david, wrote:
> I discovered during power on from the BIOS that my communicatiion device
> for connecting to internet along with multimedia resources share irq11,
> setserial didn't solve the problem in resolving the conflict i.e separating
> both devices from sharing a single irq. how do i do it because i want my
> communcation device, the serial port on com1 to use irq11 while my
> multimedia should use any other available interrrupt request. i believe
> configuring the kernel itself would be helpful, so if it is, my kernel is
> 2.4.20-8. by the way, the linux kernel configured the serial port to use
> irq4 which i changed using setserial.
>
Why did you change from IRQ 4? That's the standard IRQ for com1. I'm
guessing you want to change from IRQ 11 because of a conflict?
*sometimes*, two devices *can* share the same IRQ. Which multimedia
device? I'm not sure where, but you should be able to set the IRQ via a
config file.
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