In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:33:16 +0000:
>some things> will work with shared interrupts, and some won't. My
>experience has been> that nics don't share well with anything else, sound
>and vid will often> work.
>
>How do you check interrupt usage?
cat /proc/interrupts
e.g.
[paul@tbird paul]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 104810598 XT-PIC timer
1: 493841 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 7561454 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0, eth1
8: 9 XT-PIC rtc
10: 3231044 XT-PIC ide2, es1371
11: 71409600 XT-PIC nvidia
12: 3205868 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 444647 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
As you see, IRQ 5 is use by 3 devices here (no problem though)
Paul
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