Eric Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Your second message illustrates that IRQ routing changes depending on a
> BIOS setting. This is unsuprising, but placing blame for lock-ups on
> this setting seems a little premature to me; you seem to have problems
> when certain devices (or device drivers) are sharing interrupts;
> presumably you should blame the devices or drivers rather than the BIOS
> setting, which is only tickling a bug caused elsewhere.
I'd cheerfully blame the driver -- except that the SB Live! proved capable
of causing hangs even when there was no sound support compiled into the
kernel!
> Eric Seppanen
> (3 Erics having a conversation is confusing)
Hm. I suspect you two might qualify to join the Eric Conspiracy.
See <http://www.tuxedo.org/ecsl/>.
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but too early to shoot the bastards."
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