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Old 06-05-2004, 05:08 AM   #1
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Can I set the IRQ's for my devices manually?


Or am I at the mercy of the BIOS and/or default kernel behavior? It really pains me that on my SOYO KT600 Dragon Ultra mobo that virtually all my PCI devices are assigned to either IRQ 10 or IRQ 11. This is terrible and I's like to be able to distribute the IRQ's evenly accross my devices. I want my video card on a different IRQ from my audio device for example. How does Linux decide what gets assigned where and can that decision be modified?

Here's the dmesg output!!

PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

P.S. My BIOS does not allow me to assign IRQs to specific PCI slots so I need to be able to modify whatever the BIOS does (surely the kernel can and does do this?)
 
Old 06-05-2004, 05:43 AM   #2
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LINUX can not give out IRQs very well, so its better to leave it to the BIOS to do the dirty work. Are you sure your BIOS does not have an option to designate IRQs to devices because many motherboards that I used has this function. It may not be as easy as PCI Slot 1 gets IRQ blah and PCI Slot 2 gets IRQ blah blah. It might be four options that you change. These four options daisy chain to certain PCI/AGP slots or devices. You have to do trial and error to get the IRQs that you want for each device. You may have to move a few cards around to make sure they get their own IRQ. Check the motheroboard manual it will give you details about designating IRQ to devices.
 
  


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