IRQ problem with VAIO laptop again

[John Baldwin]

On 24-Nov-2003 Pete Carah wrote:
>> I had noted a problem with choppy audio after the pci.c update of a week
>> ago; this turns out to be more general.  I've also lost firewire and 
>> the memory-stick slot (3rd usb controller) completely:
>> 
> 
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> Following up to my own note:  With no visible change to dmesg, the audio 
> now appears to work at least pretty well, maybe a little chop but acceptable 
> with no changes to pci.c; maybe some acpi change fixed it?  Music plays at 
> least fairly well now, but the X-windows beep function (using kde + artsd) 
> still seems rather delayed but now completely non-choppy.
> 
> However, the firewire and memory-stick are still listed as missing in
> action...  I can't burn a cd using my usb drive since this laptop doesn't
> support ehci (can send the files to another computer with an internal
> drive).
> 
> I will check this again, but I am pretty sure that I have plug-and-play OS 
> turned ON in my bios since last summer when the acpi started working fairly 
> well.  How is this supposed to be set now on non-acpi motherboards (I have
> several such that run current; one Aladdin-5 K6-2 (ASUS has acpi, but at
> least one of my "cheap" ones doesn't), and an embedded-controller (Cyrix GX) 
> mini-system)?

PNP OS should still be OFF.

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