[Asterisk-Users] Re: TDM04B problems

[Andrew Sayman]

Elwin Andriol wrote:

> Don't know if this will help you any further, but. After some trouble
> with IRQ sharing mayhem we solved our little problem by tinkering the
> linux kernel. I forgot the names of the actual modules, but after
> disabling modules for APIC support and something about IRQ sharing or
> APIC-IO or such, we effectively disables the APIC from handling IRQ's.
> I'm not so sure that disabling the APIC only from the BIOS setup will
> do it (it did not in our 'MSI'-case). We had to disble the APIC from
> within the BIOS setup also, otherwise our system crashed at boot.
> After doing so our /proc/interrupt didn't show any 'IO-APIC-level' and
> 'IO-APIC-edge' containing lines but only 'XT-PIC' containing lines.
> After that, our TDM04B allways got it's own IRQ and the mayhem never
> returned.
>
> If you're in real nead of those module names, let me know. I've got
> some notes somewhere at the bottom of the 3 feet tall pile besides my
> desk that says 'To be examned further someday'

The /proc/interrupts interface is already showing everything as being
assigned by "XT-PIC". I'll see what I can do with the kernel config
looking around at what you've suggested. Hopefully I won't need to ask
you to dig through your pile.