Re: IRQ > 15 for Athlon SMP boards

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Hugh ([e-mail]) wrote:

> /proc/pci on my computer reports the following, which is definitely
> abnormal:

No, it is definitely normal - my happily working dual Athlon also has
IRQs above 15.  I think this is a consequence of the APICs and stuff on
newer x86 architectures (?) - but it is nothing to worry about.

> The symptom as you can see is that IRQ > 15, which does not seem
> normal.  I checked this with 2.4.18-pre6aa1 and 2.4.18-pre8ac1.
> The results were the same.  The consequence is that X does not
> start because of an error that reads like

Now you have put 2 and 2 together and got 5 here - the two are unlikely
to be related.

> =============================================================
> (WW) MGA No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:5:0) found
> (EE) No devices detected
> ==================================================================

Hmm - I think thats a simple X config screw up; check that you haven't
got a BusID line in there which doesn't match.

Dave
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