Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:04:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 06:16:34PM -0700 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 at 18:16:34 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote: >> 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 > > Whatever you have, it's not an Inspiron 7500-clone. The sound on > the 7500 uses only one IRQ (#5). > > You could try using polling mode for the pcic. That should free up > IRQ 10. Also, go into the BIOS and disable everything that you don't > use. On my 7500, I've disabled the IR port and the parallel port. IRQ 9 is available on the 7500. I use it for the Ethernet card. I don't see anything on 10. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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