[wellylug] IRQ Conflict?

[Josh Simpson]

Jethro Carr wrote:

>hi all,
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>does anyone know how/if you can change the IRQ of a PCI device?
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>I have an audigy PCI sound card and a usb 2.0 PCI card both on the same
>IRQ, and if I plug in a device on the usb card, it causes the sound to
>'pause'.
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>In XMMS the audio will be like it is paused - the counter has stopped,
>output has stopped, but it not actually registered as paused.
>
>If I click pause twice, it then resumes playing. I believe it is due to
>an interupt issue between the sound card and usb device, and when a
>change on the usb bus occurs, it causes problems.
>
>any ideas?
>
>thanks,
>
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Depends on the BIOS, but when I used to work at a PC repair shop 
physically rearanging the cards can sometimes help, sometimes PCI slots 
are banked into to 2 or 3 groups putting offending cards into different 
banks can help IRQ problems.

Hope it helps.

Josh

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