[ale] 3dfx card conflict

[Mike Smith]

	If you are using a machine that uses the Award BIOS, there are some
settings in the PNP and PCI Setup that allow you to set an IRQ for each PCI
slot.  I think you could possibly use this to force an IRQ per card thus
allowing these cards to co-mingle....Maybe....

-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of
smnoldelinux at mediaone.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:03 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] 3dfx card conflict


Upon further investigation, I get conflicts with the 3dfx card if more
than two PCI cards are used.  So, I can either use the NIC or the sound
card, but not both.  I still probably need to tinker with the BIOS a
bit.  BTW, here's some /proc stuff to mull over if anyone can help.

/proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C595 Apollo VP2/97 (rev 6).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=64.    Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=64.        I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
    Non-VGA device: VIA Technologies VT 82C586B Apollo ACPI (rev 16).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Unknown device (rev 1).
      Vendor id=121a. Device id=5.
      Fast devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000 [0xe2000008].
      I/O at 0xf800 [0xf801].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].

/proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:      92917          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       3393          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:       8046          XT-PIC  serial
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  NE2000
 11:        604          XT-PIC  eth0
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:     138930          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:       4553          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0

And I'm waiting to hear from 3dfx tech support....
- Scott

smnoldelinux at mediaone.net wrote:
>
> I have a conflict with my 3dfx VooDoo3 2000 PCI and an ensoniq 1371 PCI
> sound card.  Has anyone had similar problems?
>
> And what I mean by a conflict is that the computer won't show a display
> OR proceed with the memory check on boot.  It just won't boot.
>
> The 3dfx card also has problems with a card in an adjacent slot, too.  I
> can't put the 3dfx card next to my LinkSys NIC or it won't boot.  I have
> only four PCI slots, so I can't skip slots in between cards.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> - Scott
> P.S. - The card displays great when it works, I just want sound too!