Changin IRQs in OpenSuSe 10

[Kaervak]

I think there's a hardware conflict between my sound card & NIC in my system that's causing hard locks on boot. The system is a laptop so chaning PCI slots isn't gonna happen. I figure maybe changing IRQ's can fix things. Anyone know how to change hardware IRQs in SuSe?

 

[Nothinman]

You can't change IRQs, they're tied to the hardware slot to which the device is attached. And being able to share IRQs is part of the PCI spec, I really doubt it's causing your problems.

 

[drag]

You can change them if your using ancient ISA stuff. But Linux generally leaves the Bios to handle that sort of thing for anything remotely modern, it's the Bios's job.

More then likely it's a problem with ACPI power management or stuff like that. If you google around you can find instructions on how to disable that sort of features at bootup time.

 

[Kaervak]

Bummer about not being able to change IRQs. It's the strangest thing too, if I leave the soundcard unconfigured in yast, the system boots fine. After I configure it, it hard locks on boot anywhere from one to five times and then loads fine. Only other thing I can think of is something in the driver isn't playing nice in the system. Ah well, thanks for the help guys.

 

[drag]

You could try disabling stuff you don't need (serial ports, parrellel ports, etc). Also in the bios select 'non-pnp-os', 'PNP OS? no' or similar options. A bios upgrade if aviable probably wouldn't hurt.

One thing I like to do is try out knoppix. That way if it's a Suse problem it will narrow it down, were as if it's a "linux" problem then you'll probably have issues in knoppix also.

 

[Kaervak]

The BIOS is set to no PNP OS at the moment, still locks up. I disabled the parallel & serial ports and still locks up. I haven't tried any Knoppix setups yet, definitely gonna try a couple now though. I'll figure it out eventually. Going to take a while, I've been a daily Windows user for about eight years. Slowly but surely learning my way around. Thanks for the help.