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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4: r8169: irq 16: nobody cared!/TX Timeout
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:48:35 +0100
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> On Sul, 2004-09-12 at 22:59, Francois Romieu wrote:
>> > Same result on starting X:
>> > 
>> > irq 16: nobody cared!
>> 
>> It slightly sounds like a broken irq routing.
>> 
>> Any taker for the hot potato ?
>
> Try booting the -mm kernel with "irqpoll" as a boot option and see if it
> survives but struggles. At least I think mm4 has the irqpoll hack in. If
> so then you can work back and try and see whether things like acpi=off
> work

Not sure if you caught the earlier context or if this is relevant, but
acpi=noirq does work.