On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:06:52PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM2048k)>
> > > ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20010208]
> > > ACPI: SCI (IRQ9) allocation failed
> > > ACPI: Subsystem enable failed
> > > Trying to free free IRQ9
> > 
> > That seems to indicate acpi is freeing a free irq. Turn ACPI off. Its a
> > good bet it will fix any random irq/driver problem right now
> 
> Looking at this a bit further, I realised that when the sound driver was
> compiled in the kernel, it is initialised before ACPI.  The BIOS has
> assigned IRQ9 to ACPI, but the PCI code does not know this because of:
> 
> PCI: 00:07.3: class 604 doesn't match header type 00. Ignoring class. 
> 
> The ISAPnP code then assigns IRQ9 to the sound card, causing the ACPI
> code to fail to allocate it.  If I compile sound as a module then the
> ACPI driver grabs IRQ9 and the sound get IRQ7.
> 

Hi Brian,

please test this patch with ACPI enabled and sound driver compiled in kernel.
IMHO it should fix this problem.

Best regards.

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