On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:03:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2006-05-27 at 15:43 +0100, Sitsofe Wheler wrote:
>> We have a few machines which have been upgraded to to D-Link System Inc
>> DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet adaptors. The unfortunate news is that shortly
>> after this was done people found that programs were either going
>> into the D state or hanging while trying to access the soundcard using
>> ALSA. Looking in the logs turned up this message:
>>
>> irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>
> If running with irqpoll fixes it then I'd suggest looking for BIOS
> updates. The older VIA boards often had buggy IRQ router information.
I have a feeling these machines are running the latest BIOS available to
them. I will look into this though.
> Are you updating from a 100Mbit card in the same slot or onboard
> ethernet ?
We are updating from the former (a removable PCI 100Mbit card being
replaced with a 1000Mbit one). If you think it's non BIOS related and
want to have a poke let me know and I'll add you to the sudoers list on
those machines.
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Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
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