Re: Interrupts not being raised.

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:17:15 +0000

mlord@pobox.com said:
> Perhaps the BIOS has not set up the motherboard interrupt steering
> for this card. If you have a BIOS "non PnP operating system" option
> in the BIOS setup, try toggling it.

It was on. Now it's off. It doesn't appear to make any difference. I'll play
with it some more. All the other PCI devices appear to work OK and generate
interrupts. Perhaps I'll try transplanting the offending card into an SMP box,
or into an Alpha.

> Alternatively, it may be possible (anyone know?) to invoke the BIOS
> "Set PCI Interrupt" function from Linux to configure it properly.

If it's possible, it's well-hidden.

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