It sounds like you've done the best you can do, David. This (older hardware support) is what linux is really known for, amongst the the more tech-savvy folks but there's got to be items/scenarios that "fall through the cracks." I don't think that the kernel devs are apathetic to similar situations but, more likely, you can get hardware that's a couple years old for pretty cheap nowadays so their time is probably best served elsewhere (that's what I'd imagine, anyway).
<br><br>All I know is this discussion totally reminded me of the good old days of autoexec.bat & config.sys on MS-DOS....ahh, /reminisce.<br><br>--miguel<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
David Lawyer</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:18:26PM -0700, John Jefferson Lowry IV wrote:
<br>> Isnzt there supposed to an auto-balancer for IRQs?<br><br>Yes but that's for the PCI bus where IRQ's may be shared. My PC has<br>both a PCI bus and an old ISA bus where interrupts may not be shared<br>nor may the same interrupt be used on the PCI and ISA busses. On the
<br>ISA bus one may have cards where the IRQs are set by jumpers. I set<br>them to avoid conflicts but the Linux driver for my sound card changes<br>the IRQ from what I set, resulting in a conflict. This is a card<br>where proprietary software (and not standard ISAPNP software) can
<br>override IRQs set by jumpers. Perhaps the reason why the Linux driver<br>can't deal with the IRQs is that it doesn't know this code used to set<br>the IRQs in the hardware, but it's doing something to change the IRQ
<br>from what I've set by jumpers to what is called the default on the<br>Internet: IRQ=5. Anyway, the Debian maintainer is supposedly looking<br>into it. If the software can't be fixed, at least it should be<br>
documented regarding the IRQ behavior.<br><br> David Lawyer<br></blockquote></div><br>