Re: Bad IRQ Conflicts on Laptop (2.3.99-p4-2)

From: Martin Mares (mj@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 13:43:51 EST


Hello!

> The commercial OSS drivers I'm using report an IRQ conflict problem when
> they are installing. When I try to access the audio device, I get
> timeout errors.
>
> Again, this doesn't happen under 2.2.x and 4front tells me this is
> purely an IRQ conflict problem.

   There *cannot* be IRQ conflicts between different PCI devices. PCI
IRQ's are by definition shared and any PCI device driver which refuses
to share IRQ's is plain buggy. Please tell it to OSS people.

                                Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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