From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932508AbWFBR5v (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:57:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932522AbWFBR5u (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:57:50 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49597 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932508AbWFBR5u (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:57:50 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sitsofe Wheeler Subject: Re: skge killing off snd_via686 interrupts on Fedora Core 5 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:57:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1149181417.12932.44.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-cwma2-0-0-cust739.swan.cable.ntl.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:03:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2006-05-27 at 15:43 +0100, Sitsofe Wheler wrote: >> We have a few machines which have been upgraded to to D-Link System Inc >> DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet adaptors. The unfortunate news is that shortly >> after this was done people found that programs were either going >> into the D state or hanging while trying to access the soundcard using >> ALSA. Looking in the logs turned up this message: >> >> irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > > If running with irqpoll fixes it then I'd suggest looking for BIOS > updates. The older VIA boards often had buggy IRQ router information. I have a feeling these machines are running the latest BIOS available to them. I will look into this though. > Are you updating from a 100Mbit card in the same slot or onboard > ethernet ? We are updating from the former (a removable PCI 100Mbit card being replaced with a 1000Mbit one). If you think it's non BIOS related and want to have a poke let me know and I'll add you to the sudoers list on those machines. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/