Can anyone tell me how to force ALSA to assign a particular IRQ to my PCI soundcard (onboard so I can't move it)? I read an article where some guy changed the settings in his alsa-base file but I apparently don't have that file??

My boot hangs for about 3 minutes on boot b/c the sound and my mouse are sharing the same IRQ. No, my BIOS does not allow me to change the IRQ for this device or the mouse (USB).

Does your BIOS have an option to "reset" the IRQs and let then get re-detected, instead of using the exosting ones. That "might" move them around some.

Cheers.

You might try a different driver for the mouse. Usually you have choices there.

The problem is that on the PCI bus you don't have much control over IRQs, and sharing PCI IRQs is a very common situation. If there is a problem with the sharing, then the problem is with the driver(s) involved; the PCI specification requires sharing be implemented, and properly written drivers take this in stride.

My BIOS has practically nothing. The Only time IRQ's are even mentioned is with the serial port, it allows me to change it, and it simply lists "available" IRQ's. Nothing about PCI stuff or anything. On the advise of a couple different articles, I moved the serial port IRQ and disabled PnP, but nothing changed.

jiml8 - I like to have never got the wheel on my Logitec USB mouse working. I finally ran across an article that mentioned using the "auto" choice in xorg.conf and that got it to working. Not sure I'd have any luck with any other mouse drivers but I'll try it out. I already tried changing USB ports and also tried a ps/2 style adapter but it remains on 9.

I don't have any problems once the machine boots. Everything functions. It's just that darn stall at bootup that's driving me nuts. Heck, I reboot every 10 minutes it seems like LOL. Maybe there's a setting that controls how long it stalls when it gets to the sharing message?? I don't know if it stalls because of built in timers or because it takes it that long to setup sharing??

Again, if there is a stall on boot due to IRQ problem, the problem is with the driver(s) and not with the IRQ being selected for the mouse.

If changing the mouse driver doesn't fix the problem, try changing the sound card driver. You might have a choice there; the very common VIA chipset AC97 audio system has two different drivers, for instance.