hi, i've been wrestling with the pcmcia in my laptop for quite a few months now. It is one of those laptops that doesnt seem to like the yenta_socket. I finally got it to work by installing Slackware 8.1, but of course it wouldnt let me get away with it that easily, i cant seem to get pcmcia and the mouse to work at the same time cause they are trying to share irq 12. they end up freezing my whole system.

ive tried to force the pcmcia to take a different irq by adding "exclude irq 12" to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and also by specifying "PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=3,4,6,7,10,13"" in /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia but these changes just cause the card to fail to load.

This is what "cat /proc/interrupts" gives me when i have my mouse loaded:

CPU0
0: 92858 XT-PIC timer
1: 140 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC ALi Audio Accelerator
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
11: 330 XT-PIC eth0
12: 276 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 5611 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

And here is what i get if i just have the pcmcia loaded:

CPU0
0: 9071 XT-PIC timer
1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC ALi Audio Accelerator
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
11: 149 XT-PIC eth0
12: 0 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs
14: 18408 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0


if anyone knows of another way to force another irq for my pcmcia, or has any idea how to change the ps/2 port's irq to something else that would be great.

Cheers,

scorcho

btw, my laptop is a compaq presario 2100, model 2105ca if that is needed