Hello everyone, Currently I have my soundcard on IRQ9. /proc/interrupt shows this: CPU0 0: 208542 XT-PIC timer 1: 3710 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 9: 1458611 XT-PIC Ensoniq AudioPCI 10: 1446 XT-PIC eth0 12: 98030 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 41633 XT-PIC ide0 15: 563 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 208492 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 When I inspected further using lspci, I noticed under "interrupts:" of the soundcard it says "pin A routed to IRQ 9". There is another device, the SMBus Controller which has "Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9". Does it mean that this IRQ is still shared? What does pin A/pinB mean and if they both route to the same interrupt, will it cause problems when recording? Thanks For any clues or info regarding this, Louis. P.S The Full lspci output is as follow: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [e4] #09 [2106] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0 Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=2 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=2 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: fc900000-fe9fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0800000-f47fffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 425a Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 1: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 2: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 3: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at 3fe3f400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 425a Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at e400 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at e000 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at dc00 [size=16] 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 425a Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9 Region 4: I/O ports at d800 [size=32] 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: CardExpert Technology: Unknown device 8888 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Expansion ROM at fe9f0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> 0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3025 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at feae0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 2: I/O ports at bc00 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- 0000:03:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort+ <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 248 (3000ns min, 32000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! 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