Thanks Jussi,

That seemed the best way to go to me too.  But how are the interrupts
set?  Are you talking bios settings here?  I guess not as W$ would
inherit them too.  I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux.

thanks again
Brian

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:55, Jussi Aalto wrote:
> Hi Brian
> 
> On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote:
> >
> > 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows:
> >
> >  10:      83875          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712
> >
> > i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with
> > the usb interfaces.
> 
> Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they are free on your 
> system, use either of them for sound card. Boot to window$ and check how 
> the interrupts are shared there. Leave IRQ 10 for USB as you may need it 
> in the future (usb-mouse, printer, etc.) and IIRC it is some sort of 
> recommendation to use that IRQ for USB devices (like 5 or 7 are for sound 
> cards and 3 and 4 for serial devices ). And it's less likely for your 
> system to behave oddly if you keep the config close to specs.
> 
> Cheers,
> J.
> 
> >
> >
> > 2. How do I go about changing this?
> >
> > USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option.
> > That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I
> > can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device.  No matter.
> > There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there
> > right?  In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the
> > OS goes, but not disable it in the bios.
> >
> > OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB
> > or the sound card is probably the better option.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian
> 
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