Stefan Esser wrote:
>
> On 2000-06-19 11:05 +0200, Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As I was under time pressure, I pulled the card out and put it in a
> > different machine, this one a P166 which works fine (with the same IRQ).
> > These are the settings:
> >
> > Slot n IRQ Line (this is the only one I set on my first attempt, to 12)
>
> Is the PS/2 mouse interface enabled ? It will try to grab IRQ 12,
> and may do so in a way that the IRQ can't be delivered from ISA
> or PCI slots ...
The may be a psm driver in the kernel, but there is no PS/2 mouse device
on the motherboard or on any of the cards.
> > Perhaps all I need to do is toggle the PnP BIOS setting, but before I
> > pull out the screwdrivers and tear the two machines apart again, I'm
> > hoping to draw on someone else's experience here.
BTW will setting the PnP BIOS to `enabled' have any effect?
> Depending on the time when the mainboard was built, this may be a
> board that needs jumpers configured accordingly (i.e. you have to
> enter the jumper settings in the BIOS, which will put the number
> in the appropriate config space register, but interrupt routing is
> implemented via jumper fields ...)
I'll have to check that; I do still have the mboard manual somewhere.
regards
gram
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