David J. Christini wrote: I'm using the XSuSE_NVidia video driver for my Diamond Viper 330 video card. On the SuSE webpage (at www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html#nvidia) it says about this driver:
"But it does not work, if the Riva128 card needs to share an interrupt with another device in the machine. "
I believe this is my problem. My computer also has a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 soundcard. The XSuSE_NVidia driver works fine until I try to activate my soundcard using the "soundon" command of the Open Sound System. As soon as I type soundon, my video freezes, so it appears that they share an interrupt. Is there any way that I can use both XSuSE_NVidia and my soundcard?
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Bob Hart wrote: I was able to get min working by moving the offending card to another slot and then going into the bios config. I told it to delete previous settings. This did a re-assignment of irq address and my NIC card moved from 9 to 10
Thanks for the tip. I got it to work by telling the bios to delete previous settings ... I didn't even have to physically move the cards, b/c I had moved them recently. Is there any reason why the bios shouldn't be set to delete the previous settings by default every time the system reboots? Although I was able to get it to work, I had to first use trial and error to determine which interrupt that my video card uses. After having the bios delete the previous settings, I first activated the soundcard _before_ starting X. Upon doing that, /proc/interrupts indicated that my soundcard was using interrupts 5 and 9. Then I deactivated the soundcard and started X. Looking at /proc/interrupts did not indicate anything about an interrupt for my video card, and listed nothing for interrupts 5 and 9. But if I then activated the soundcard while running X, my screen froze. After reboot, I setup my soundcard configuration so that it could not use interrupt 9. Now, when I activate the soundcard it uses interrupts 5 and 7 and it works fine under X. So, it appears that my videocard uses interrupt 9. But, how can I actually find out which interrupt my video card uses without the trial and error that I had to go through? Thanks, Dave -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e