[Asterisk-Users] Re: TDM04B problems

[Elwin Andriol]

Andrew Sayman wrote:

>Elwin Andriol wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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'
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>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.
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Wouldn't have minded for a need to clean up a little. But if 
/proc/interrupts already tells you 'XT-PIC', you're allready in the 
green zone as far as the problems we had are concerned. No need for 
kernel thinkering on that part.

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