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Re: IRQ's (was Re: Linux Driver)

Subject: Re: IRQ's (was Re: Linux Driver)
From: Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Date: Fri Nov 3 18:20:07 2000


On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:35:57PM -0600, W Bauske wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> > Sound cards are infamous for cutting PCI spec corners. Such card which
> > got IRQ 37 will think that is really on 5. Oops! Other devices seems to
> > be quite a bit better in this respect.
> >
>
> It appears my dual PIII motherboard also uses interrupts above 15:

Sure, but everybody knows that a sound card is on 7 or, in the worst
case on 5 where it has to compete with a printer.

(For the humour impaired - this was a joke; maybe a bitter a bit but
still.)

Not all soundcards will have that, or other, spec deviation. What
I am saying is that with soundcards you have the best chance to run
into issues like that.

  Michal

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