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Date:	Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:42:12 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: interrupts

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Harry Chris Motin writes:

>> Seems like the PCI Matrox 220 should show an interrupt, too.
>
> I don't believe that video cards use interrupts. I seem to recall that
> as being true, but I don't know why! My ATI card does not use an IRQ on
> my system. It does not show up in the BIOS setup or in the BIOS readout
> during the first part of the bootup.
> HCM
>

I think the way PCI devices work is that each PCI bus uses an interrupt, and
there are usually 2 PCI busses on a PC; devices connected into PCI,
including the AGP, if used, all share those interrupts.

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