From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 1 18:34:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D3C37BAFE; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA70320; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:04:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:04:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Brett Glass , Mike Smith , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 06:16:34PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 at 18:16:34 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Brett Glass wrote: >> As I mentioned in another message, the problem seems to be allocation of >> interrupts. On a machine where IRQ's 5 and 11 are taken by the sound >> hardware, and the pcic itself uses IRQ 10, none of the options in > > Whatever you have, it's not an Inspiron 7500-clone. The sound on > the 7500 uses only one IRQ (#5). > > You could try using polling mode for the pcic. That should free up > IRQ 10. Also, go into the BIOS and disable everything that you don't > use. On my 7500, I've disabled the IR port and the parallel port. IRQ 9 is available on the 7500. I use it for the Ethernet card. I don't see anything on 10. 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