On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Robert Alexander Stragies wrote:
hi all,
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
Robert Alexander Stragies
said: hi all, and jon
Are you sure, that all bioses would assign a new irq if i just moved the card?
I am not a hardware technician, so my knowlege is by no means comprehensive. On most motherboards, PCI slots share IRQs in pairs, i.e. slots 0 and 1 share an IRQ, slot 2 may or may not, slots 3 and 4 share an IRQ, and slots 5 and 6 may or may not share. The fast way to find out is to move one card two slots ;).
but i have 4 devices sharing irq 11. usbcontroller, tvcard, Ati mach64 (AGP), and matrox pci. i have 3 or 4 pcislots, 2 ocupied. thought's?
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It's pretty dependent on the BIOS of the machine, the higher quality boards will sometimes even tell you which slots share which IRQ's to help you route around the problem. However, I've also noticed certain types of cards (SB-Live in specific) that seem to take the same IRQ or share with the same other cards (strange, I know) no matter where you put them or what order you put them in. Some BIOS versions even allow you to bind IRQ's to specific slots in the config (my personal preference :). Plus, the perpheral cards vary according to how nice they'll play. Some share well and others don't play nice at all and hog the resources. The only way to be sure is to mess around with the machine and see how it reacts for you. -- Ray Schwamberger Linux Technician Atipa Linux Solutions -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/