Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-11 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:11:42PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > "Manuel A. McLure" wrote: > > Jeff Garzik said... > > > Changing '#undef DEBUG' to '#define DEBUG 1' in > > > arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h is also very helpful. Can you guys do so, > > > and post the 'dmesg -s 16384' results to lkml?

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-11 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 10-Apr-2001, Manuel A. McLure écrivait : > This may be the difference - I always set "Plug-n-Play OS: No" on all my > machines. Linux works fine and it doesn't seem to hurt Windows 98 any. I've been told it affects the way IRQs are assigned; With "PnP OS: No", some boards (seen on several Asu

Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Manuel A. McLure" wrote: > I'd do that if this wasn't also my Windows 98 gaming machine - I'm supposing > that the Windows drivers do use the IRQ even if XFree86/Linux doesn't. I > dunno if Windows is smart enough to assign an IRQ even if the BIOS doesn't. > Anyway, things are working now (specia

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Manuel A. McLure
> > I do have an IRQ for my VGA since the instructions for my > card (a Voodoo 5 > > 5500) specifically say an IRQ is needed. > > I wonder though... In my mind this is a driver not hardware issue. If > the XFree86 and/or Linux console driver do not use the IRQ, > you need not > have BIOS assi

Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Manuel A. McLure" wrote: > Jeff Garzik said... > > Changing '#undef DEBUG' to '#define DEBUG 1' in > > arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h is also very helpful. Can you guys do so, > > and post the 'dmesg -s 16384' results to lkml? This includes the same > > information as dump_pirq, as well as some ad

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Manuel A. McLure
Jeff Garzik said... > Changing '#undef DEBUG' to '#define DEBUG 1' in > arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h is also very helpful. Can you guys do so, > and post the 'dmesg -s 16384' results to lkml? This includes the same > information as dump_pirq, as well as some additional information. Here's my dme

Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:38:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > > 0.7.[2,3] are the usb devices. BIOS (and 2.2 kernels) had them at IRQ 5. > > 2.4 somehow picks the irq of the ethernet adapter, iqr 11, instead. > > At least usb is then unusable. > > As you say that you have the

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > This may be the difference - I always set "Plug-n-Play OS: No" on all my > machines. Linux works fine and it doesn't seem to hurt Windows 98 any. Correct, it's perfectly fine to do that on all machines (not just Via). Users should also set "PNP OS: N

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Manuel A. McLure
Axel Thimm said... > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:51:18AM -0700, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > > I have the same motherboard with the same lspci output > (i.e. I get the "pin > > ?" part), but I don't see any problems running 2.4.3 or > 2.4.3-ac[23]. I am > > only using a trackball on my USB port - wh

Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Axel Thimm wrote: > 0.7.[2,3] are the usb devices. BIOS (and 2.2 kernels) had them at IRQ 5. 2.4 > somehow picks the irq of the ethernet adapter, iqr 11, instead. > > At least usb is then unusable. > > As you say that you have the same board, what is the output of dump_pirq - are > your link val

Re: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-10 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:51:18AM -0700, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > Axel Thimm said... > > Several weeks ago there had been a thread on the pirq assignments of newer > > VIA and SiS chipsets ending with everybody happy. > > Everybody? Not everybody - there is a small village of chipsets resisting

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA (was: VIA KT133 chipset PCI crazyness...)

2001-04-10 Thread Manuel A. McLure
Axel Thimm said... > Several weeks ago there had been a thread on the pirq > assignments of newer VIA > and SiS chipsets ending with everybody happy. > > Everybody? Not everybody - there is a small village of > chipsets resisting the > advent of 2.4.x :( > > The system is a KT133A (MSI's K7T T