[PLUG] SB Live's Revenge
Paul Kuliniewicz
kuliniew@purdue.edu
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 13:36:19 -0500
>Coming from a user of SB Live under Linux, I would say it doesn't make a
>lick of
>difference what IRQ the SB Live is on. I believe PCI devices are
>automatically
>mapped to free IRQ's by the BIOS upon boot and the drivers should be able
>to find
>the device no matter what. In fact, I think it's impossible for two PCI
>devices to
>have an IRQ conflict as you can map multiple devices to the same IRQ. The
>only
>problem is when you have too many ISA devices and they eat up all the
>IRQ's before
>the PCI's get a chance. I thought with PCI, the days of IRQ conservation were
>over. If we didn't need to provide ISA backwards compatibility, numbered
>IRQ's
>could be eliminated completely. Anyway, I would look elsewhere to solve the
>problem.
Well, then, in that case, any other ideas for what's going wrong
here? Once again I've run out of ideas. Everything seems OK, but the
sound still won't work. Argh.