Haven't heard much about this before, but thanks for the tip - will
certainly look into it.
Enjoy the weekend, guys.
Reagards
RichardM
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Craig Ringer
<craig at postnewspap To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
ers.com.au> cc:
Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Realtek NIC and SuSE
25/07/2003 03:06
PM
Please respond to
plug
> Sounds like Mandrake is using APIC to assign IRQs, whereas SuSE isn't?
Yep. Whenever you see IRQs of >15, you're using an onboard IO-APIC. This
is one thing we have MS to thank for, they essentially forced
chipset/board manufacturers to include IO-APICs.
Check to see if SuSE is booting with "noapic" for some reason, and if it
is try removing the option. Otherwise, a custom kernel with IO-APIC
support may be a good idea.
Craig Ringer