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Good afternoon, James...

On Thursday 23 January 2003 03:04 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:

> Nothing like replying to your own post *grin*.... but I've found out one
> thing....... EVERYTHING on this laptop is using IRQ 11!  except keyboard
> mouse and ide..... My NIC works because it's at IRQ 3 ....  (No wonder
> my VGA card gets flakey when I play MP3's .... I've found that since USB
> is also on IRQ 11 that is why I can't plugin items to the USB port. Any
> ideas how to re-assign IRQ's in Linux?  Never had to do that before (In
> Linux or FreeBSD) so I'm on a learning curve here.  So when I plug in a
> card that uses 11 it tries to reload sound mods usb mods vga mods pci
> mods etc etc etc.  AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!  Questsion is ... Am I going to
> have to load win98 on a box JUST to change the cards default IRQ?  Hope
> not.

I ran into this on a clone laptop. My solution was to go to the BIOS and
*force* the stupid thing to use other IRQ's in the BIOS. Then force Plug N'
Pray to re-read the table and perhaps you'll be good to go. Of course, maybe
not. 8-|

Dave
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Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project 
Web Page:   http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003
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