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IRQ problem

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kaosk

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Apr 11, 2001
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i was installing alsa, because my sound doesn't work (i have a comapq presario notebook) and when i was loading the modules i notice that the sound and video share IRQ 5, and alsa dont load the modules.

How i resolve this?

P.S.: Bios Setup don't work (Compaq)
 
Go into your BIOS and tell it that IRQ 5 is reserved for legacy devices. Your bios may use diffent language; you might find this under "PCI configuration" or "Legacy ISA config" or something similar. The idea is to prevent PCI devices from grabbing an interrupt that some other non-pci device has taken. Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
 
Hi,

Compaqs are a bit non-standard and have things like diagnostic partitions that no-one else has. Anyway, you should be able to hit escape when the compaq boot loader is active and that takes you to a boot menu including BIOS setup options.

Regards
 
yes i can see the options, but they are very limited.
 
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