> I was installing a sound card in a HP Vectra and noticed that if
> the parport, which I built in, driver detected the parallel port on IRQ
> 7, but in DMA mode that it would not show up in /proc/interrupts, only in
> dmesg, but if I tried to use that IRQ for the sound card it would fail.
> Now, the sound card is installed, but why didn't parport's findings show up
> in /proc/interrupts? I think that it should.
If it showed up in /proc/interrupts things would likely be worse. The
problem is that the hardware has a conflict, not that parport is stealing
interrupts away from the sound card.
You would have the same problem even if parport were not configured,
surely?
Tim.
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