On Wednesday 19 December 2001 05:42 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > Warning- long post > > I must confess to having been bemused and amused when Civileme ranted on > Mandrake Forum against the ECS k7s5a motherboard he had purchased a month > or so ago. He had terrible problems with all the devices on his board using > IRQ 11 and the Bios being "brain dead". > > My own experience with that board was the opposite. All my devices were > autodetected by LM8.1 and all the irq lines were nicely distributed. > The only problem I had was the on board sound not working, but that was > expected because it was a new unsupported chip set. > > But then I decided to spash out £15 on a PCI sound card. Having learned > years ago with Windows NEVER to buy anything other than Creative sound > cards I installed an SB128 (OK maybe today other sound cards are alright, > but old wounds cut deep) > > On booting into LM8.1 I was pleased to find that my sound card worked > perfectly first time, (that's why I buy Creative) > The bad news is that now the onboard sound was disabled my pcmcia wireless > networking card now appeared on irq10 and refused to work despite there > being no irq conflict. > > Then I discovered Civileme was right and the 'brain dead' bios prevented me > from forcing irq lines, and any attempt to force an irq in the linux pcmcia > config was doomed. > > Eventually I found that by putting the wireless card in a certain slot, and > so long as usb is enabled, then the wireless card the usb, and the sound > card would all share irq11 and would work. > > Great...... but now I find that if I open an NFS file share, and for > example play some MP3 files which are on a VFAT partition on another > computer, then after 2 or 3 minutes NFS locks up, and I have to reset both > computers. > > So it looks like either Mandrake 8.1 has a bug sharing VFAT partitions over > NFS with XFS fle system in use, or (more likely) I have an irq problem > with sound and lan sharing the same irq line. > > So if Civileme or anyone else can suggest a way of forcing either sound or > LAN to use a different irq in defiance of the Bios, I would love to hear of > it. > > derek
Urgghhh! Disable ACPI, Enable PnP, and knock out the reserving of an INT for the AGP Video on PCI. play with the slots--sound and USB should play nice. I have not found the on-board sis900 to work well with dhcp in any version from 7.1 forward, unless you use dhcp-client rather than dhcpcd and then only in 8.0 and 8.1 Civileme
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