Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

[Will Newton]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> What are your parallel port settings in BIOS?

AFAICR there is only an option for setting the I/O port. I'll check
for anything else later (the machine in question is busy right now :).

> Do you have Plug-n-Play OS enabled in BIOS?

Yes.

> I am not sure that I agree, however, that an "irq=none" on the kernel
> cmd line should affect the operation of the Via code.  I would much
> rather fix the Via code as I suggest above.

irq=none seems pretty unequivocal to me, I'm not sure how easy it is to
explain to a user that irq=none doesn't do what it says.

> Time to look for and drag out the old Via laptop...  Oh well, I needed
> to debug the Via audio code some more anyway. :)

I'm getting all sorts of troubles with a SB PCI 128 card (AC97 also).
If it works at all, it seems to eventually stop getting interrupts until
the module is removed and reloaded.

Which is why I suspect there may be a larger problem with the VIA
motherboards.