Hi, first of all thanks for your reply. My /proc/interrupts looks as follows:
CPU0
18: 583 PMAC-PIC Edge MESH
20: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac
21: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Output
22: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Input
23: 217 PMAC-PIC Level eth0
25: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SWIM3
27: 1559 PMAC-PIC Edge ide0
29: 5078 PMAC-PIC Edge ADB
BAD: 0
eth0 doesn't appear to share the interrupt with anything else. I really can't
tell which one my graphic card is supposed to be. The
network card's number is 23 which explains the "Disabling IRQ#23" message when
I get thrown out of the network. On a hunch I moved the
ethernet card to another pci slot but that had the same result.
The sordid debian installation story for my power mac is as follows. I had both
xfree86 and network working together with sarge, the 2.6.8
kernel and bootx (the bootloader). With bootx you boot into os9 and then from
there boot into linux. I then completely erased os9 and
sarge and installed sarge and then etch using quik. Quik (also a bootloader)
allows you to boot directly into linux. Because I couldn't
get xfree86 or xorg working at all with quik (similar problem with screen
freezing), I installed etch with os9 and bootx.
Beats me if I broke something along the way...
Anyways, thanks for your help up till now. At least I know now what interrupts
and IRQs are. As always, more help is appreciated.
yours, rob homsi
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