Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:30:55 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tejun@aratech.co.kr
Subject: Re: 2.4.22pre8 hangs too (Re: 2.4.21-jam1 solid hangs)
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:04:17 +0300
Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi> wrote:

> > You're right, it looks pretty clean and simple. Possibly the only thing I
> > would try is moving aic away from int 9 to int 10 or so. Int 9 sometimes
> > interferes with VGA int routing on broken boxes. But that is unlikely
> > (though simple to test).
> 
> I don't think vga interferes with anything: I never run X on the box, and
> even the text console remains quiescent as nothing is logged.

The thing I ran into once was not really an intensive use of VGA and its ints
but rather some weird glitches in the boards' int logic that sometimes drove
the software drivers crazy (was network back then).

Regards,
Stephan
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