On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 00:14, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:30, Dennis Kaptain wrote: > > > thanks for the speedy reply. I am pretty sure I found my real problem. It > > looks here like eth1 a 3c590, and es1371 (my sound card) are "sharing" IRQ10. > > To the best of my knowledge... You can't do that!! Now I found a problem but > > I still don't know how to fix it. Both cards are PnP PCI cards without > > jumpers to set the IRQ. Is there a way to forceably assign IRQs to PnP PCI > > cards in software? > > > > [root@zozo proc]# cat interrupts > > CPU0 CPU1 > > 0: 4995 5789 IO-APIC-edge timer > > 1: 72 97 IO-APIC-edge keyboard > > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade > > 5: 3703 121 IO-APIC-level eth0 > > 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc > > 10: 1 16 IO-APIC-level eth1, es1371 > > 11: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci > > 12: 68 217 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse > > 14: 182 219 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > > 15: 6657 5925 IO-APIC-edge ide1 > > NMI: 0 0 > > LOC: 10694 10693 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > I believe you can set the irq at boot by modifying grub, but I don't > know the syntax. > > BTW - My IRQ 5 is shared between a pci nic card and usb and it runs just > fine. > > Clifford See if you can switch the NIC to another PCI slot on your mainboard. Certain slots will share IRQs. I had read somewhere that soundcards don't like to share IRQs. Travis Fraser
