On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 03:31:17PM -0500, Dwayne Jacques Fontenot wanted to say the
following:
>
> hi guys,
>
> I spent several hours last night moving cards around in my machine
> trying to solve this problem.
>
> The short version is that I need a PCI network and sound card
> that have linux drivers which allow them to share an IRQ.
>
> I currently have a SB PCI64 and a NetGear FA310TX (Tulip based)
> which do not get along on an IRQ.
>
> I need them to share because the BP6 has 5 PCI slots but only 3 IRQs
> among them. It works like this:
>
> AGP INT_0
> PCI1 INT_0
> PCI2 INT_1
> PCI3 INT_2
> PCI4 INT_0
> PCI5 INT_0
>
> INT_3 in the BOIS does not seem to have any effect.
>
> My cards and their constraints are as follows (not in any order):
>
> 1. AGP TNT2 Ultra has an IRQ but does not seem to use it
> 2. PCI TNT requires an IRQ and seems to disturb other cards
> on same IRQ (SB64 has static, FA310TX stops working)
> 3. PCI BT878 TV card driver will not share IRQ (black screen)
> 4. PCI NetGear FA310TX does not work if shared (AFAICT)
> 5. PCI SB64 (es1371) has terrible static if shared with TNT,
> locks when shared with FA310TX
>
> So, my only option is to find a NIC and sound card which will share.
>
> Where do I begin?
At least my Ensoniq es1371 (sound blaster 64 PCI) shares irq's happily with
the USB stuff. And my tulip works fine but right now it doesnt share an irq:
% cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 9918533 9854485 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 585712 583760 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 111942 111675 IO-APIC-edge serial
7: 561809 560920 IO-APIC-level eth0
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
10: 19451802 19429006 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, es1371
12: 156207 156042 IO-APIC-level eth1
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 588547 599278 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 10285 10046 IO-APIC-edge ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
And yes, apic seems to work too (but this is 2.2.15pre17 so it doesnt make
any noise about APIC errors.. :)
Tuomas
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