on my laptop i get atleast 20 of theses errors during boot time and suggests using pci=noirq

i set this in lilo.conf as a kernel parameter but it makes no difference, is there a reason for this do you think?

what causes this problem?

thanks

1st off, after editing the lilo.conf file you have to run /sbin/lilo to update the changes.

2nd, what errors are you talking about? you did not specify.

What kernel are you running? I don't see the option pci=noirq anywhere. If you unpack the kernel souce in the Documentation directory there should be a file called kernel-parameters.txt
In there it will tell you what parameters you can pass to the kernel and what it will do.

sorrywas pci=biosirq

sorry

after i added that to lilo.conf my errors changed slightly, here is the output from dmesg?


PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:1d.2.
uhci.c: found UHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x84) is not claimed by any active driver.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
input0: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:1d.7.
hcd.c: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 00:1d.7 setup!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:05.1.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0

i've seen that before a bunch, but i can't remember the fix. search this site and google for different parts of that error message. it's a usb problem if you didn't notice.

i think it's telling you to add that pci=biosirq setting to your boot loader.