Are there that many cards in the machine so that you have run out of
available IRQ's ? Perhaps it is possible to disable certain other devices
(say serial ports when using a PS/2 mouse and keyboard or disable the
parallel port if it is not in use) so you can use those interrupts. What I
would suggest is using PCI cards, which are generally easier to configure
than ISA cards (both PnP and non-PnP). In my own machine I have an ISA
Modem, an ISA SB32PnP soundcard, a PCI NIC, a PCI SCSI-II controller, a PCI
WinTV card and an AGP Video card. These use up all available IRQ's, and even
share some (at least under Win98).
What your problem appears to be is that your soundcard is using the same IRQ
as the keyboard, which I guess to be PS/2 (IRQ12 ?). So try to use another
IRQ for the soundcard. IRQ that may be freed are 3, 4 (serial ports), 7
(parallel port), 12(?)(PS/2) and 14 or 15 (IDE interfaces)
Make sure that if you use a PS/2 keyboard, you may best use PS/2 mouse too,
to free the serial port. Otherwise, if you have a normal keyboard, use a
normal serial mouse, and disable the PS/2 port.
My guess is you've allready got the NIC on 5, 10 and 11 and the VidCard on
9. AFAIK other IRQs are fixed (1, 2, 6, 8, 13)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siddharth Srivastava [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: too many cards....
>
>
> hi all...
>
> my work wants me to have 3 NIC's + a soung card on my linux box...
> i already had many problems shuffling IRQ's while setting up the
> cards...now comes the sound card...the problem is with the card in the
> slot,the machine boots,but the keybd locks...
> what should be the standard proceedure for putting/installing so many
> cards on a linux m/c(i am using linux 2.0.32 kernel)...how do i resolve
> the IRQ_LINE clashes??
> thanx
>
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