[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/25/2005 09:14:42 AM: > Hello > > I want to to know if the motherboards VIA are fully supporte by asterisk.
This is a complex question. The *software* is fully supported. Depending on the CPU you use, you may have to modify the makefiles (some VIA CPU's do not implement the CMOV instruction), but with that change the software will work just fine. However, Digium *hardware* is a different story. The TDM and X100P boards require that the card be placed on its own interrupt. Interrupts are scarce on a VIA platform: there's no IO-APIC, and there's a lot of integrated hardware. It is doable, however. I'm using a TDM board with a VIA EPIA-MII board with zero problems. No clicks, no static, nothing. I'm even sharing an interrupt (the TDM board and an unused (and AFAICT not-diableable) Cardbus controller), and still no problems. However, YMMV... > And also, some of those motherboars say that with 1 pci slot , using a > special riser card you can connect 2 pci cards. Will that work to have 2 pci > cards (FXS or FXO ) on asterisk? Again, a complex question. The short answer is yes, the dual riser in and of itself will not cause a problem. The long answer is that it is highly unlikely that you'll find an interrupt for it. I have the dual riser and the second port wants to use an interrupt that already has a couple of devices on it, including the Ethernet interface. So, that's probably not possible on my system. The really annoying part is that my system has *SIX* unused interrupts: 3,4,6,10,11 and 13. Now I know that two of those are traditionally used by legacy devices (math coprocessor and floppy controller), but what about 3,4,10 and 11?!? I can find no way to get the computer to use those IRQ's. Everything's onboard, so changing PCI slots is not possible. It's frustrating. 15 interrupts is not exactly a lot, but when you ignore nearly half of them, it's real hard to use your motherboard... Tim Massey > thank you > Fabian > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users