Killing X server using ctrl-alt-bksp screws up eth0???

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Winkler" <lmw@po.cwru.edu>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: Killing X server using ctrl-alt-bksp screws up eth0???


> Wow, my graphics, sound, and nic were all on IRQ 5!  That doesn't seem
like a
> good thing.

In your bios youl have something called .. IRQ Holder for PCI Steering .. Or
just PCI Steering..

IRQ sharing is not uncommon now since the number of IRQ's has'nt changed ...

you can blame the X86 hardware design for that same as the 640k base issue.

Just because you have devices on the same IRQ does'nt mean its bad thing.

Nige

>
> I swapped some cards around in different slots and now I have the nic on
IRQ 11
> and the others still on IRQ 5.  Still the same problem with killing X
though.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> > White
> > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 7:32 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Killing X server using ctrl-alt-bksp screws up eth0???
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:14, Lisa Winkler wrote:
> > > Well, I don't remember exactly which card is in there (I seem to go
> > through NICs like other people go through socks) but dmesg says:
> > >
> > > Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre8 (Oct 11, 2001)
> > > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0
> > > eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 32
> > >
> > > I suppose I could recompile my kernel with a couple of the
> > different modular drivers that might work.  I was thinking of doing
> > that anyway, just procrastinating.
> > >
> > > But the bigger question I have is, why would killing the X server
> > have any effect on a NIC driver (on the kernel itself) ??  Maybe
> > there is something else wrong here...
> > >
> > ----
> > IRQ 5 is a normal location for a sound card - Perhaps it isn't about
> > killing the X server, perhaps it's about not managing the sound
> > interrupt that created a problem when X was launched.
> >
> > Typically, if you have a plug and play network card, if you move it to a
> > different slot, you can move it to another PCI slot and it will find an
> > unused IRQ and the OS should have no problem making the switch.
> >
> > Craig
> >
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