[ltp] Re: IrDa and double boot WinXP/Linux problem

[Harry Popov]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 17:04, you wrote:
> > From: Harry Popov <lz1bb@mail.bg>
> >
> > I have T600X with double boot Win XP and SuSe 9.1 Personal.
> > Every time after  booting XP my infrared is not working under
> > Linux. I have to enter bios and  initialize hardware to be able
> > to enable the infrared port. Every thing works  fine until I
> > boot again Win XP. After that no IrDa under Linux again, the 
> > device is disabled:
>
> IIRC, the 600X has a Quick Boot option in the BIOS. Turn that
> OFF, so the BIOS will assign hardware properties to devices
> before the OS does. XP will reassign the IO addresses and IRQs as
> it sees fit if that option is on, and they could well be
> different than what Linux saw after a fresh boot.
>
> You may have to deal with XP finding "new" hardware because the
> devices are in different memory locations, but that should only
> happen once.

Works!!! Thanks for help solving my problem. I spent a lot of time 
traying alone...

Regards, Harry Popov