[Asterisk-Users] hardware question

[tmassey at obscorp.com]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote on 03/25/2005 09:14:42 AM:

> Hello
> 
> I want to to know if the motherboards VIA are fully supporte by 
asterisk.

This is a complex question.  The *software* runs on Mini-ITX (what I 
assume you're asking about) just fine.  The *hardware* *may* have issues 
however.

These devices do not support IO-APIC, so you can have interrupt issues 
with the X100P and TDM400 devices.  I am running a TDM400 on a Via 
EPIA-MII board, so far, without problems.  No static, no clicks, no 
buzzing, no erros, nothing.  So far...

> And also, some of those motherboars say that with 1 pci slot , using a 
> special riser card you can connect 2 pci cards. Will that work to have 2 
pci 
> cards (FXS or FXO ) on asterisk?

Again, a complex question.  The short answer is yes.  The PCI riser cards 
will work just fine in and of themselves.  However, the odds of you being 
able to get two interrupts completely free and clear for the use of two 
TDM boards is slim.

This whole IRQ routing issue is a drag.  On my system, there are three 
interrupts completely unused (3, 4, 6, 10,