Re: 2.4.16 with es1370 pci

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:37:42 -0500


> > used the 2nd dsp on this card since this boot, but I know it works since I
> > used it the last boot. When the first quits, they both are gone. But
> > seeing how no interrupts are being delivered, makes sense (see below)
>
> Boot withg the "noapic" option. Quite how your system has managed to
> lose an interrupt in the APIC hardware I don't know, but the APIC's
> certainly have bugs. It could also be an edge/level trigger but if the BIOS
> confused it because IRQ15 was for some kind of IDE device, but I see no
> evidence of that.
>
> If it happens with APIC disabled ("noapic") then the second option might
> be worth investigating.

It's been a while since I've added more to this.

so far, alan, noapic has kept my es1370 card working w/o problems. Any clue
why it doesn't work when apic is used? It will usually stop working during
play and will not work again until a reboot. (I don't even need to
hardreset the system)

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