[expert] tv tuner, sound card, ethernet won't work together

[Jeremy Gregorio]

Hi all. I've got a bt848 tuner, soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone 
ethernet card on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On 
board sound and ethernet are disabled in the bios. If the tv tuner is 
not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A 
few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card 
or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound 
card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm 
on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a stock kernel with these 
parameters:

hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic acpi=off

Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is 
completely useless without the acpi=off line.

Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no 
matter where I put it one card will go dead. There are no IRQ conflicts, 
and I don't think there are any I/O conflicts (but my Hex isn't good 
enough to be sure). I'm pretty sure the card is good (worked on my old 
board, and will work fine when another card goes dead). Reloading the 
driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what the 
cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience give 
me some insight? Thanks again :).

Jeremy Gregorio


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