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["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen wrote:
> Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
>
> > I have a 9.2 system here where the network card(Realtek 8139) and the
> > on-board sound have the same IRQ.
>
> [snip]
>
> > I would like to move the Ensonique on-board sound device to another
> > IRQ but do not know how. What is the 'correct' IRQ for sound devices?
> > I think it was 15 but I would prefer to leave te ide items alone.
> >
> > Would moving eth0 to a different PCI slot help?
>
> It's worth trying.

Well I am going to try messing in th BIOs first but after that....:)

> On the PCI-bus, IRQs and other hardware resources are assigned by
> Plug-and-Play.  This is not always the case on the ISA-bus, which is
> why the BIOS on systems with ISA-busses will let you reserve IRQs and
> DMA ports for non-PnP ISA cards. 
>
> As to your soundcard and your network sharing an IRQ, it shouldn't
> really be a problem.
I don't understand why it doesn't matter on Linux and yet it does in 
Windows, sorry. Its something about the hardware after all. Does it not 
mean that I cannot use the sound and the network at the same time as 
they both have the same IRQ to talk to the CPU?