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David Rajaratnam wrote:
> 
> 
> I could be wrong, (in fact I'm very likely wrong), but I don't think
> the video card needs an IRQ. My card had IRQ 9 (I think) which was
> by default disabled and I've left it that way and not had a problem.
> From the way I understand it, communication is only in one direction,
> the application (X or otherwise) writing to the card, so there is
> no reason for an interrupt since the card never gives data back.

AFAIK accelerated cards generate interrupts when they're ready for 
I/O.  To use this (and DMA) Linux would need a kernel-level driver
for the video card.

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Dimitri
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