From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 17:52:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8FB37B5EA; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA24026; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:52:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:52:32 -0600 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Cc: Darryl Okahata , Mike Smith , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:13 PM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 14:12:11 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >> At 07:34 PM 8/1/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> IRQ 9 is available on the 7500. I use it for the Ethernet card. I >>> don't see anything on 10. >> >> Greg, you're not following what I said. > >Yes I am. > >> When the FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE GENERIC kernel boots, it gives IRQ 10 >> to the pcic and 11 to the video controller. 5 is dedicated to the >> ESS sound chip and can't be changed. > >Understood. You'll need to change your /etc/pccard.conf. Most users will not know how to do this. The PC Card software should, by default, choose available interrupts for PC Cards by default. Otherwise, even if he or she installs from the CD, the user will be left without the ability to use any PC Card that requires interrupts. That person will likely conclude that FreeBSD does not run properly on his or her laptop. Odds are that person will ditch FreeBSD in favor of Red Hat or another distribution of Linux which does not have this problem. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message