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From: Mike McMullen [mailto:mlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
My server is old. It was built around ~2000. I brought the
machine down and
went into the BIOS. The PCI configurations were set for AUTO
so I picked
IRQ 12 and 14 which seemed to be free. My choices only went up to 15.
You'll only see IRQs above 15 if your system has an APIC, *and* APIC support
is turned on in the kernel. APICs are found on SMP systems and many newer
single-processor systems. They're kind of nice for machines that have lots
of PCI cards, since they practically eliminate IRQ sharing.
You might try moving the problematic card to a different PCI slot, if you
can. I've seen that fix some pretty odd and puzzling problems, like a
Digicom TDM400 card that couldn't trigger interrupts.