[LAU] Howto move devices to specific IRQ's ?

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:52:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svend-Erik_Kj=E6r_Madsen_ wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm into shapeing up my system to work better. I have installed a Debian
> lenny and migrated 64Studio multimedia packets on to it, and use
> 64studio's kernel 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486, then installed irqbalance and
> try to find the best setup for my RME Hammerfall Multiface card. 
> 
> I use a lenove T61 laptop and my problem is that the PCMCIA card share
> IRQ with some usb device on IRQ 16:
> 
> debian:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0       CPU1       
>  16:       5328      20016   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, yenta,hdsp
> 
> I want to move my hdsp to another IRQ, but can't figure out howto, it is
> a matter of firmware version on my Multiface card ? I can't move the
> PCMCIA card since there is only one available slot....
> 

You can't. Unless you have a ThinkPad. Or a desktop machine where you can move cards to different slots.

-ken