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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:35:56 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron
Message-ID:  <20000803143556.M87263@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:43:42PM -0600
References:  <Your <4.3.2.7.2.20000729215431.04b6ab40@localhost> <200008011803.LAA02343@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost>

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On Tuesday,  1 August 2000 at 15:43:42 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 12:03 PM 8/1/2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>>  Apart from this, all of the pcic's in currently-shipping
>> Inspirons are supported, and the inspiron BIOS leaves them in pcic mode at
>> power-up (but doesn't reset them when you reboot)
>
> As I mentioned in another message, the problem seems to be
> allocation of interrupts. On a machine where IRQ's 5 and 11 are
> taken by the sound hardware, and the pcic itself uses IRQ 10, none
> of the options in /stand/sysinstall leaves an IRQ available for
> cards plugged into the socket. /stand/sysinstall should offer a
> choice of any two uncommitted interrupts for the cards.

Why don't you enter a PR for it?

Greg
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