Re: resolving irq conflict

["nnameka david" <nnaemekadavid2004@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The audio device shares irq11 with the winmodem. So if i want the BIOS to 
recognise 4 as that of my serial port for the modem, how do i do it? what 
config file, pls?

> From: Roger <morris_r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: resolving irq conflict
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:57:27 -0700
>
>
> Around Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:40:03AM +0100,  nnameka david, wrote:
> > I discovered during power on from the BIOS that my communicatiion device
> > for connecting to internet along with multimedia resources share irq11,
> > setserial didn't solve the problem in resolving the conflict i.e 
> separating
> > both devices from sharing a single irq. how do  i do it because i want 
> my
> > communcation device, the serial port on com1 to use irq11 while my
> > multimedia should use any other available interrrupt request. i believe
> > configuring the kernel itself would be helpful, so if it is, my kernel 
> is
> > 2.4.20-8. by the way, the linux kernel configured the serial port to use
> > irq4 which i changed using setserial.
> >
> Why did you change from IRQ 4?  That's the standard IRQ for com1.  I'm
> guessing you want to change from IRQ 11 because of a conflict?
> *sometimes*, two devices *can* share the same IRQ.  Which multimedia
> device?  I'm not sure where, but you should be able to set the IRQ via a
> config file.
>
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