On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 15:22, Dave Laird wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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, Problem is this is a Compaq Armada M700 and they have kindly decided that the only thing a user should do in BIOS is set passwords for BIOS and determine boot order etc. 90% of what you expect in BIOS I have NO access to .... ugh. Thanks James > > Dave > - -- > Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project > Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 > Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system. > > An automatic & random thought For the Minute: > Barometer, n.: > An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we > are having. > -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" > Dieters live life in the fasting lane. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+MHlIaE1ENZP1A28RAh+9AJ4qO3gQQjGrh6jD0NKVJ2rAvYQLBwCfZTeV > NLuKGXs3XtUj1Ik10ygBj0Q= > =sLca > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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