On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:59 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 00:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > When I play a video DVD the modem quits doing whatever it's doing.
> > Strange. I'm running 32bit FC7 on a system with a 64bit AMD 3200 and 2
> > gigs of memory. Both Xine and VLC exhibit the same behavior. I just
> > tried gmplayer and it does the same thing, but the sound has static.
> > That's weird, it never has before. Something else to fix. Sound on Xine
> > or VLC is perfect.
>
> Uh, are the modem and the IDE port the DVD sharing an IRQ or something?
>
> > So, how could playing a DVD foul up the modem? Is there some type of
> > streaming to the network that could grab the serial line or the ppp
> > session??
>
> I can think of two things at least...the sharing of an IRQ or some other
> hardware semaphore or simply the load put on the CPU by a soft modem.
> However, with an AMD 3200, I don't think that's the issue.
Lordy Rick, I'm an old BBS sysop from back when. I have a RS Robotics
external with all the bells and whistles in hardware, so I'm connected
only by a serial cable. I'm gonna check out your suggestion about the
IRQ though. I sure miss setting pin jumpers. Devices generally stayed
where you put 'em, IRQ wise. Here's /proc/interrupts
# more interrupts
CPU0
0: 181 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 21093 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 45395 IO-APIC-edge libata
15: 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
16: 986 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1
17: 122468 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2
18: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3
19: 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4
20: 71311 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata
21: 566805 IO-APIC-fasteoi ALi M5455, eth0
22: 1327729 IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia
NMI: 0
LOC: 2874529
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
I don't see IRQ 3 or 4 listed for serial port. Do I have to gink with
uugetty or set serial? Is that the right place to look?? Ric
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