On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:38:22PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > Er, you don't seem to understand how PCI interrupts work.
> > 
> to Er is human, to ... :-)
> 
> The meteor driver was causing problems with the adpatec, so i thought
> if i could reasigne the irq it would help. anyway i think i found a work 
> around.
> now the problem is that at full size, 24bit colour, i'm getting FIFO errors :-(

A PCI slot has 4 irq lines named INTA to INTD.
On PCs all slots share the same 4 physical irqs and the lines are
hardwired on the board in alternating order to each slot.
If you want cards not to share irqs you have to swap slots until you
get what you want - you can't enforce it with software.

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