On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:33:05PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > > Are you able to disable the SiS card from the bios? You
> > > > should try that if you haven't already.
> > >
> > > Being crappy SiS - you can't. And no, there's no jumpers on the
> mobo.
> >
> > I assume you got it to post to the nvidia card at least (console
> > comes up on the nvidia card)? You could try moving the slot that
> > the nvidia card is in, or maybe just reserve the interrupt that it
> > is using. I'm assuming you have a shared interrupt or something
> > that is making things unhappy.
>
> The bios comes up on the nvidia card. Linux boots on the nvidia card.
> The framebuffer works on the nvidia card. But X doesn't. (I haven't
> tried
> a framebuffered X)
>
> When I cat /proc/interrupts, I see the SiS is sharing an interrupt with
> the
> usb and ethernet card - 11. But I see no mention of the nvidia card.
The card needs an interrupt for graphics mode. Does one show up in /proc/pci?
If it doesn't have one, that would be a motherboard bios bug. Perhaps
there's a newer bios available for it? Which motherboard was this?
>
> How do I assign an interrupt to the nvidia card?
>
> My bios has no options for this. The option for "plug and play OS" is
> set
> to "N", and "reserver IRQ for PCI card" is set to "Y".
That's about how I'd expect you to go about doing it.
Have you tried changing which PCI slot it's in? That helps get a
different interrupt sometimes.
Mark.
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