Re: what is pci=biosirq

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > It looks more like that Acer misimplemented PCI_IRQPIN register - if it > is legacy IDE interface using ports 1F0-1F7/170-177, with IRQs 14 & 15, > it should report zero as IRQ pin. What 'lspci -vx -s 0:f.0' says? > Last four bytes it prints should re

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

uname has printed unknown for the cpu vendor for as long as I can remember. There is a hacked uname.c distributed as "nuname" that works for cyrix intel and amd, maybe others. http://cds.duke.edu/pub/sunsite/utils/shell/nuname-1.0.tar.gz I *think* Cyrix shows up as CyrixInstead Dual P120 Linux

/proc/pci and cpuinfo

I have a machine here with a discrepency on the pci information in /proc/pci: us 0, device 20, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 48). Vendor id=10b7. Device id=7646. Medium devsel. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O a

what is pci=biosirq

I have an ALi chipset motherboard that seems to function normally. K6-2 450, 256mb ram, 20gb ide fujitsu hard disk. Every time I boot up I get this unsettling message about PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. It turns out that 00:0f.0 is my ALi