On Monday 03 Mar 2003 5:25 am, erylon hines wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:55 am, you wrote: > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > > > I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble > > > and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. > > > > > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting > > > another one? > > > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that > > > this is no the problem? > > > > > > I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A > > > under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake > > > 9.0 is not working properly with my board? > > > > Did you try either booting the kernel with the noapic parameter or > > turning the APIC (not ACPI) off in the BIOS? > > I have this board and everything except the on-board sound was picked up on > the install. NIC has always worked. Sound works too (if you have a > problem re-post and I'll post the fix). 'Course, I'm still in the dark > ages using 8.2, so with 9.x YMMV, as you mentioned above. Since everything > I have works fine, I've seen no reason to migrate to 9. > > IRQ 11 is shared with usb-ohci, Eth0, SIS 7012 > > My nvidia card shares IRQ 5 with usb-ohci. No other IRQ is shared. I > am not booting with "noapic" and I never reset apic in my bios. > > e.
Fantastic It's working!! Thanks a lot for that. Just a detail, what is thia APIC does? Now I have window 2000 not booting (I still need window 2000 for my scanner, yes I know it's a shame) JP
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