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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:12:00 +1000
From:      Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Vaio PCG-XG9 Problem (freeing up IRQs)
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010622160403.0231eae0@juno.prt.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106150727080960.001134A3@smtp.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 07:27 15/06/01 -0700, Greg Smith wrote:

>I don't know your BIOS, but with some BIOSs there are plenty of
>opportunities to reclaim IRQs from unneeded devices:

Greg,

Thanks for that - I've finally found an afternoon where I can play around 
with things a bit...

The interrupt problems have gone a way a bit since I stole irq 7 from the 
printer - 15 is not available on the XG9 as (is frequently is the case) the 
second IDE controller is used to drive the CDRom.  However, I have scraped 
together 3,4 and 10 for the actual cards...

Having lived with things not working perfectly for a year, I dug a little 
deeper into why I couldn't use SCSI and Ethernet at the same time.  It 
appears that pccardd gives 0x340 to the Linksys card (despite it having 
loads of IO windows listed when you dumpcis it) - and the Adaptec SlimSCSI 
will only play if it gets 0x340.  Is there a way that you can force the io 
window on a card in pccard.conf in the same way that you can force an 
irq?  That way, if you put the Ethernet in first, it won't steal the only 
window that the SCSI needs.

I also now have a bizarre problem with the flash card - it gets spotted, 
and appears as ata4 - but then nothing else; it doesn't become a disc 
:(  I'm still playing with this - I think I just broke something in the new 
kernel config.

Thanks again for the earlier help - I'd forgotten how much fun this could 
all be!


--
Paul.


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