[plug] how do i change irqs?

[John Knight]

Cheers mate! Who needs official support, eh? :)

>
>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 22:58, John Knight wrote:
>
> > SB Live!, PCI bus, on an MSI mobo with an AMD Duron.
>
>In Plug and Pray land, the easiest way to change a cards IRQ is to shove
>it in a different slot, this forces the IRQ steering to renegotiate the
>IRQ. Most modern PC hardware can share IRQ's quite well. If a device
>requires it's own IRQ, don't use the bios to force them (it's dodgy)
>instead, consult the manual for how IRQ's are assigned, and make sure
>that the device which requires it's own IRQ is on a different channel to
>other devices.
>Unlike the old days IRQ is fairly irrelevant from a setup perspective.
>
>final note: Ensure PnP OS is turned OFF in the bios. This will force the
>bios to do IRQ steering rather then trying to hand it over the OS. Linux
>works better this way.
>
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