Re: PCI question and tulip wierdness

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:34:08 -0500

According to Martijn van Oosterhout:
> When my video card (RIVA128) and Tulip DE-500AA are given the same
> IRQ by my PCI BIOS (i.e. all the time), starting X causes the whole
> box to hang solid, no ping, no keyboard response.

I seem to recall this being a documented limitation of the XFree86
server for the RIVA 128. (Something like "SHARED INTERRUPTS DON'T
WORK!" :-))

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Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
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