Okay, this may be a bit off-topic, but mayber there are other lurkers or those knowledgeable about the EISA NVRAM that could give me a hand. I have a Micronics M54Pe with two P133s. It's a fine little (well, not little--silly thing is the size of home plate) board that does light fileserving for my home network. But with the classic pre-APIC machines, the IO-APIC on this board only supports 16 sources, which, coincidentally, are mapped to the 16 "normal" IRQs. So I only have that many interupt sources. I've got the onboard IDE enabled right now (which use 14 and 15), a PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (which uses IRQ 9, I think), and two EISA SCSI cards (10 and 11). I would like to add another SCSI card (don't ask), but it causes IRQ shortage issues, and wreaks havoc with the EISA BIOS. First of all, I'm not sure how important it is to go into the EISA config program and set up all the cards with IRQs and such, but it seemed to be a good idea. With three SCSI cards in there, they take up 9, 10, and 11, and force the ethernet card off the chart. Linux, understandably, loads the module with IRQ 0 (!) which doesn't actually work. Well, here's the thing. It has integrated PS/2 mouse which I'll never use, so I wondered if it was possible to disable. Regular Phoenix BIOS has no such option, I didn't find a jumper, and the EISA CFG file has a comment: "Resources always in use" which lists the keyboard interrupt, timer, FPU, and other regulars, including PS/2 mouse. Is it possible to hack the EISA CFG file to let it loose of the interrupt, or is it hardwired, and the board will never give it up? Finally, are their other solutions? I've never liked sharing interrupts especially with dissimilar cards, but is that an option? Maybe someone has this board and has some great ideas. Also, how come if I set things to be LEVEL triggered in the EISA config, they always wind up IO-APIC-edge in /proc/interrupts? Brendan Miller - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
