Thanx for the reply. I was now trying to do a few things : First my original setup :
AGP = nvidia PCI1 = empty PCI2 = firewire PCI3 = soundblaster128 PCI4 = ethernet PCI5 = WinTV ISA = empty First i changed the tvcard wich was in the last pci slot (sharing with nvidia) to PCI slot1 below the AGP slot restarted my box and it was still sharing with nvidia "damn" . Then i took out the firewire card and put the tvcard into its slot (PCI2) After restarting the system it was not sharing anymore tvcard had irq9 and nvidia was alone on irq11 ... but it kept crashing the whole system so its not about the irq . So i have two questons : first how can it be that the agpslot shares with 2 different PCI slots and how can it be that i have 5 slots but i can only use 3 of them if i avoid sharing the agp`s irq? ( i need atleast 4 of them ) Second question is do you know anything about wintv cards and xawtv why could it be crashing my entire system it seems to be not nice at all. Thanx in advance Florian On Thursday 01 November 2001 17:41, Onur Kucuk wrote: > FS> Hello i have a little problem with my irq`s . > FS> Since i have quite a lot of hardware in my box there is some sharing. > Now the FS> problem is that my wintv card shares an irq with my GeForce and > since it FS> crashes my complete system after running xawtv or zapping as > well as any FS> other tv prog its obviously not wise that they share the > irq with the grafix FS> device =). > > Most probably the irq conflict is causing this, you are right. > Especially the graphics card should stay alone, even though there are > lots of irq management systems (mean the ones in your board and OS). > > FS> Now i dont know much at all about irq management if someone could tell > me the FS> comand to change an irq and which irq is free and available in > my pc FS> here is a cat /proc/interrupts : > > Unfortunately there is no command that can change irqs, as long as > they asre not pnp etc. But even if they are, I never could get success > in this. Why ? Because IRQ's are managed by boards more strictly in > later systems. > > FS> # cat /proc/interrupts > FS> CPU0 > FS> 0: 567487 XT-PIC timer > FS> 1: 3092 XT-PIC keyboard > FS> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > > IRQ 3 and 4 seems to be not used. These are the serial ports. If > you dont use any of them,or both, shut them off from your bios. > > FS> 5: 0 XT-PIC es1371 > You are very lucky your sound card uses irq 5 (I could not > manage that) Keep it like this. > > FS> 7: 1 XT-PIC parport0 > FS> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > FS> 10: 4323 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0 > > If you are not using any usb devices, shut your usb controllers > from your bios. They dont screw things but it would be better. > > FS> 11: 238652 XT-PIC bttv, nvidia > > I guess your tv card is in slot 1 of your board. Usually in > boards the pci slot 1 and the agp slot share the same irq, so > change the place of it. > > FS> 12: 90182 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > FS> 14: 54881 XT-PIC ide0 > FS> 15: 7586 XT-PIC ide1 > > These are all fine. I guess 13 is also being used by something > related to CPU, so dont try to use 13. (most probably cant > either) > > FS> NMI: 0 > FS> ERR: 0 > > FS> All devices are listed exept my firewire card which i didnt load yet > but if i FS> remember right it would, if loaded, use irq 9 but i might be > wrong about that. > > Actually irq 9 is not as fine as irq 5,10,11 etc. but I did not > have any troubles using that. > > Usually boards assign irqs to pci slots, that is like pci slot 3 > can only use irq 9 and the irq of the pci slot 6 (something like > that). You can find info about this in your mobo's manual, though > you dont need to waste your time. > > Simply, shut down the systms that you dont use, serial port, > parallel port, usb etc. After all that, try different combinations > of pci slots on your board, after a few tries you will realize how > to solve your trouble. > > Good Luck > Onur Kucuk > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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