Nothing like talking to oneself here *grin*.  I think I've tracked the
blocking down to hotplug.. Seems that there is a device that exists in
newer compaq desktops at /dev/compaq/cpqphp.  This of course doesn't
exist in a 2 year old laptop.  HotPlug is the cause of the the problem. 
Everytime you try to insert a cardbus pcmcia card hotplug reacts by
trying to load EVERYthing on the pci bus.  It appears that my choices
are.

1.  retrograde to MDK 8.0,(maybe) RH 7.1 or SuSe 7.2 (certified working)

2.  Rebuild a kernel and pcmcia such that hotplug is not needed / used.

James


On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:34, James Sparenberg wrote:
> OK.... if the Bucs can win the SuperBowl then I can find out how to make
> this work.....
> 
>   In /usr/src/linux/pcmcia the file yenta.c  I find.
> 
>  * Only probe "regular" interrupts, don't
>  * touch dangerous spots like the mouse irq,
>  * because there are mice that apparently
>  * get really confused if they get fondled
>  * too intimately.
>  *
>  * Default to 11, 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3.
>  */
> static u32 isa_interrupts = 0x0ef8;
> 
> static unsigned int yenta_probe_irq(pci_socket_t *socket, u32
> isa_irq_mask)
> {
>         int i;
>         unsigned long val;
>         u16 bridge_ctrl;
>         u32 mask;
> 
> 
> This seems to be where it's talking about how it decides it's irq's
> since exclude 11 doesn't work (in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts) it ignores it
> and grabs the irq anyway.  Does the above make sense to anyone?  I'm
> running into a spit pot full of walls here and frankly, my head hurts.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:27, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Yes it could be but this is a box that doesn't do anything with ACPI
> > (Compaq Armada M700)  I did find this thread in Cooker.
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg63753.html
> > 
> > And it appears that it's been with us for a while...  The other thing
> > I've found out is that this is a bug that's been with us for a while...
> > But it's also limited to certain laptops.  One thing I have found out is
> > that this is not just the Armada M700 but also a number of other Compaq,
> > Toshiba's etc.  It also appears that RH introduced the problem. *grin*.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:13, tarvid wrote:
> > > Isn't this one of the things ACPI is supposed to fix?
> > > 
> > > ACPI was pretty green in 9.0, I've seen rumblings that the sourceforge project 
> > > has made progress. I presume that will make is into 2.4.20 and 9.1.
> > > 
> > > Jim Tarvid
> > > 
> > > On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:02 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > > > OK I've been beating my head against the wall for the last 5 days ....
> > > > I've googled till I'm goggled... and This is what I've come up with.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > /lib/modules/yourkernel/modules.pcimap  uhci is still listed even though
> > > > it's been replaced by usb-uhci
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This normally wouldn't be a problem EXCEPT that with the compaq laptops
> > > > everything and I do mean everything gets thrown on irq 11, pci pcmcia
> > > > and usb.  What happens is that if you insert any cardbus pcmcia card or
> > > > any usb product into the box it attempts to reload everything on the pci
> > > > bus... which are already running... and conflicts occur and it freezes.
> > > >
> > > > My choices are
> > > >
> > > > 1. disable usb sound vga and anything else on the pci bus and let them
> > > > load when I insert a cardbus card.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Figure out where hotplug gets it's irq info for usb and yenta_socket
> > > > gets it's info for it's irq and set them to something different from
> > > > sound vga etc.
> > > >
> > > > So my question is where does yenta_socket get it's info on what irq to
> > > > set for cardbus cards?
> > > >
> > > > James
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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