Hi,
> All other kernels up to 2.2.7 (last try) seemed to ignore the noapic
> keyword and tried to activate IOAPIC - but then the SCSI-Controler
> (AHA2940) did not initialize correctly and went into an endless
> reset-loop.
I you haven't done already so, then try using an old AIC7xxx driver. (I'm
using one from 2.2.0-pre3) And then boot without noapic. This SHOULD work.
Also check if you've got the latest BIOS. And tell the revision of the
board.
> Now I gave 2.2.10 a try - and it workes. Well, sort of. I still use
> the noapic setting (wich is acepted now), but as soon as I load one of
> my two ISA-Card drivers (Soundblaster 64AWE and a simple SCSI-card using
> the g_NCR5380 driver) and try to access the device, the kernel freezes
> immideately - no messages at all (logging to console 10).
Be aware that the there are scanners around that can halt the system with
the g_NCR5380. What scanner do you have got?
And wouldn't it be a solution to use the AIC7880 for the scanner?
> In case of the SB-driver (I'm using alsa 0.3.2) I am able to load the
> driver (modprobe snd-sb16 or snd-sbawe). Only when I try to actually
> play some sound, it crashes.
>
> System is SuSE 6.1
>
> Any ideas what I could try (except from not using sound and my scanner
> which is connected to the SCSI-card)?
As I've written earlier to you, I had problems too with the g_NCR5380, though
I'm not sure why.
Something I wonder: You talk about the AHA2940, but your proc system talks
about AIC7xxx. Which one are you using?
Also see my post about Strange problems in X.
I have made a patch to prevent individual interrupts to go through
the IO-APIC. This can easily be better than no IO-APIC at all.
Greetings,
Jos van de Ven
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