Re: PCI question and tulip wierdness

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:13:04 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <v3100411@student.anu.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 03, 1999 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: PCI question and tulip wierdness

>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!" :-))
>--

Use the latest version of the XFree server, it fixes this problem.

>Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
> "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."
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