FC3 Irq Conflicts on Laptop

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Cary Hart <Fedora at TQMcube.com>
Sent: Jan 30, 2005 9:45 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: FC3 Irq Conflicts on Laptop

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:35 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:

>> You might have to enable the second PCI IRQ in your systems BIOS before 
>> trying to divert it through software.  I'm wondering why you are getting 
>> the error, as IRQ 11 should be your PCI bus interrupt and you should not 
>> have an 8250 UART in your system.  I have as much as you do in my 
>> system, and I do not get this error.  However, PCI IRQ movement is more 
>> art than science.
>> 
>What happens if he recompiles with APIC and APIC IO (assuming his
>machine supports this)? Are their other non-standard kernel options that
><might help?

David:

I don't know if this would help.  What I was commenting on is assignment of certain devices to a particular IRQ.  That could help, then again it may not solve the problem of an overloaded IRQ.  PCI is an extension of the old Extended ISA bus, which allowed level based IRQ handling which was supposed to prevent IRQ 'collisions'.  I'm guessing that is what is happening in this case.  Moving the device to another IRQ should eliminate collisions but may not eliminate the overflow problem that the device experiences.

-- 
James McKenzie


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