Re: [LAU] Howto move devices to specific IRQ's ?

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 04:50:33 EEST

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svend-Erik_Kj=E6r_Madsen_ wrote:
> ons, 11 06 2008 kl. 13:57 -0700, skrev Ken Restivo:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:52:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svend-Erik_Kj=E6r_Madsen_ wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm into shapeing up my system to work better. I have installed a Debian
> > > lenny and migrated 64Studio multimedia packets on to it, and use
> > > 64studio's kernel 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486, then installed irqbalance and
> > > try to find the best setup for my RME Hammerfall Multiface card.
> > >
> > > I use a lenove T61 laptop and my problem is that the PCMCIA card share
> > > IRQ with some usb device on IRQ 16:
> > >
> > > debian:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
> > > CPU0 CPU1
> > > 16: 5328 20016 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4, yenta,hdsp
> > >
> > > I want to move my hdsp to another IRQ, but can't figure out howto, it is
> > > a matter of firmware version on my Multiface card ? I can't move the
> > > PCMCIA card since there is only one available slot....
> > >
> >
> > You can't. Unless you have a ThinkPad. Or a desktop machine where you can move cards to different slots.
> >
> > -ken
>
> Ok i have a Thinkpad, but cant figure the BIOS settings out, any clue ?
>

It's been many years since I had one, so I don't remember exactly. But once I got into the BIOS screen, it was there. Figuring out what setting did what, exactly, was a matter of experimentation, IIRC. At the time I wasn't doing audio so I didn't spend much time on it-- just enough to see that the settings were there.

-ken
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