Hello pd and lau lists,

I am having trouble figuring out how to actually change the irq's of specific devices. I read the ardour thread pointed to by http://puredata.info/community/pdwiki/Optimize and the linux hardware stability guide (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw2.html), and I now know how to find the current IRQ's used on my machine, and I also know what they SHOULD be, but I still do not know how to actually change them. My BIOS only allows me to disable my touchpad, parellel port (disabled) and IR port (disabled).

My goals with this project are to have a faster audio machine, and hopefully to not have to disable acpi in order to run linux. I am not sure of the motherboard in this laptop, and the laptop distributor will not return my emails. (If someone can help me to figure that out I would be grateful! The host bridge is an SiS 755 - is that the motherboard or just the IDE controller?)

From the ardour thread (the Mark Knecht part) Here"s the order of interrupt priority on a non-APIC machine:

0, 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

0 is the highest priority 7 is the lowest priority

my irq's:

cat /proc/interrupts CPU0
0: 15819314 XT-PIC timer 1: 15630 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 0 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb3 4: 0 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2 5: 3769675 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1, yenta, yenta, hdsp, ohci1394, eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 13339 XT-PIC SiS SI7012, SiS SI7013 Modem 12: 9093 XT-PIC i8042 14: 39815 XT-PIC ide0 15: 141222 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 1

What I would like to have:

cat /proc/interrupts CPU0
0: 15819314 XT-PIC timer 1: 15630 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 0 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb3 4: 0 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2 5: 3769675 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1 7: ??? XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: ??? XT-PIC ohci1394 10: ??? XT-PIC yenta, yenta, hdsp (I think this is both the cardbus and the multiface?) 11: 13339 XT-PIC SiS SI7012 12: 9093 XT-PIC i8042 13: ??? XT-PIC SiS SI7013 Modem 14: 39815 XT-PIC ide0 15: 141222 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 1

The acpi problem is that the system hangs (with acpi on) when fedora tried to activate eth0.

Thank you for your help? I would open my laptop but I doubt that there is much I can do in there. Probably not a whole lot of shuffling I can do in a laptop. -thewade