Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:29:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000803102926.D87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:52:32PM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost>
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On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 18:52:32 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:13 PM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 14:12:11 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >>> At 07:34 PM 8/1/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> IRQ 9 is available on the 7500. I use it for the Ethernet card. I >>>> don't see anything on 10. >>> >>> Greg, you're not following what I said. >> >> Yes I am. >> >>> When the FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE GENERIC kernel boots, it gives IRQ 10 >>> to the pcic and 11 to the video controller. 5 is dedicated to the >>> ESS sound chip and can't be changed. >> >> Understood. You'll need to change your /etc/pccard.conf. > > Most users will not know how to do this. The PC Card software should, > by default, choose available interrupts for PC Cards by default. Otherwise, > even if he or she installs from the CD, the user will be left without the > ability to use any PC Card that requires interrupts. That person will likely > conclude that FreeBSD does not run properly on his or her laptop. OK, why don't you fix the software? I've said that this is a weak point. What else do you want me to do? > Odds are that person will ditch FreeBSD in favor of Red Hat or > another distribution of Linux which does not have this problem. Have you tried this? I've had really terrible problems with RedHat on the same laptop which installed FreeBSD with no trouble at all. 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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