Quick Ubuntu Boot Question

[webbca01]

Hello Everyone! This a very quick question... but does Ubuntu 6.06 have an irqpoll boot feature? If so, how do I go about doing this?

Thanks a lot!

[antidrugue]

Hello Everyone! This a very quick question... but does Ubuntu 6.06 have an irqpoll boot feature? If so, how do I go about doing this?

Yep it does, it is a kernel parameter, so it is distribution independent.


To add kernel boot parameters, such as "irqpoll", first edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst :

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

and change this line :

# defoptions=quiet splash

so it looks like that :

# defoptions=quiet splash irqpoll

And then run

sudo update-grub

and reboot.

[webbca01]

Ok, another question:

The reason I asked about this is because of my soundcard not working, and it was suggested to boot into irqpoll (I've done many things to get this stupid thing to work and it hasn't)

are there any other ideas as to how to make this work?? Thanks a lot!!

[antidrugue]

my soundcard not working

Can you post your sound card model?

And the output of

lspci | grep -i audio

?

[webbca01]

I'm not really 100% sure what my sound card is, i think it is intel based (This is a laptop)

here's the output for you:
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

Thanks a bunch

PS I do beleive you've tried to help me with this same issue when I had it on SuSe.. but the problem was never solved... at the end of the following link, there is info on the whole "irqpoll" if you'd wish to see it.

(Refer to:http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...rd-errors.html)

Thanks again

[webbca01]

so randomly, I try "modinfo snd-intel8x0" (intel8x0 is the module)

there is a line that looks like this:

parm: buggy_irq:Enable workaround for buggy interrupts on some motherboards. (bool)

This isn't anything... is it??? Just throwing it out there

[vidd]

I'm not really 100% sure what my sound card is, i think it is intel based (This is a laptop)

here's the output for you:
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

I have the identical sound card on my laptop (Compaq Presario 2210US) and it was auto-detected by Ubuntu upon instalation.....Is/was your sound card working under That Other Operating System?

[webbca01]

Yes it was working in Windows, but I had to find a driver to install it there.

I don't know what is going on with my laptop, because theoretically it should be working.

Also, alsa is all unmuted... though I ran across something recently that said I should mute the external amplifier... but still.. nothing

is there any other info you need from me?