> > No. Its a real IRQ routing conflict according to the motherboard tables. > > > HMM, i've wasted some time with this and I am > shure that there is no real conflict. I can believe that. If the wiring is sane but the $PIRQ table is flawed then things would work fine > No problems when this IRQ is "fixed" (CMOS). > When PnP is used this always leads to a hang. Yep. In 'fixed' case Linux doesn't have to look at the $PIRQ lists in the BIOS (2.2 also btw doesnt generally look either)