https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576540 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576540#c8 none none <kunsche@t-online.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Version|Milestone 6 of 6 |Final InfoProvider|kunsche@t-online.de | Target Milestone|RC 1 |Final --- Comment #8 from none none <kunsche@t-online.de> 2011-07-20 17:14:37 UTC --- Hmm.. , I'm not sure if I got the point of your comment, anyhow here's the attempt of an reply: You mostly cannot use acpi=off nowadays. The system will encounter exactly the problems you are seeing -> This I don't get, ACPI is an additional functionality which should not influence the above mentioned hardware when it's not used. And beside this, what about PC's without (error free) ACPI functionality at all? Instead the IRQ assignment for the card should be changed (e.g. in BIOS) or the driver fixed. -> The problem is not related to a special card. If you reflect to ISA cards than there's anyhow the problem that BIOS settings are ignored by openSUSE (The settings which are generated by the ISAPNP-tools are also ignored, see bug#576095). Why doesn't the driver support sharing interrupts? -> It's not a question of a driver, it's depending on the hardware. So normally ISA-bus hardware doesn't allow to share interrupts as well as some board components, e.g. the parallel port, RS232 ports and the ACPI controller itself. An additional problem is that some PCI-Hardware can't in fact share it's interrupt with every other PCI-Card. E.g you'll find very often the problem that a PC doesn't work properly when the graphics card is sharing it's interrupt with the sound card. That means if you have a fully equipped mainboard you have to take care for enough independent physical IRQ's, wherefore you can for example disable the not needed ACPI controller to set free an additional IRQ (That was done in the above mentioned example to gain an additional IRQ (9) for the GPIB-Card). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.