On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > How are your keyboard/mouse hooked up? through USB? If they are, > > > there's a chance that the IRQ is conflicting between the three things > > > that are using IRQ16. If your mouse is on USB, try changing the USB > > > IRQ to something other than 16 in the BIOS. > > > > unless this is an old Pentootium or 486 and/or using ISA it is not an IRQ > > conflict > > > > with PCI/USB there is no such thing as IRQ conflicts anymore. > > You are reading too many brochures. i just read too much. > The ohci-hcd thingie on IRQ5 is my USB mouse! It is (after the timer of > course) the biggest source of interrupts in my system. > > If the system is loaded: playing music you get over nfs from a server > and burning a cd and browsing (moving the mouse a lot), you might get > lost interrupts. > > It just depends on how well the drivers share the irq line. exactly. drivers. it is not a hardware problem anymore, but a software issue. > A couple of years ago I was getting noise from the sound card every time > a packet went through my ethernet card. And I couldn't do anything about > it since it was a laptop, with all the interrupts wired to 11. The > kernel and drivers imporoved a lot since then. my point exactly. > There were also some problems back when X would grab the PCI bus and > hold it too long, causing the dropped ethernet packets and noise over > the music. again, software, not hardware. > Cheers, > florin Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET