asterisk users - Nov 2004 - TDM31B Interrupt Issue SOLVED! :-)

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My apologies if this gets posted twice.  I made a mistake with my from
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Hi All,

Many thanks to everyone that gave input on the above issue.  I'm glad to
announce its been solved.  The trick:

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TURN OFF ACPI!
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With SuSE you can do this by setting the boot option "pci=noacpi".

Everything now works flawlessly except for some suspicious "static"
that I
heard on one of the 3 TDM31B cards, which vanished after I reloaded the
modules.

Incidentally the technical reference booklet that came with the PC says
the slots are PCI ver 2.1 compliant.  I almost thought that would be a
problem.  Well, it turns out it isnt after all.

Thanks again.  In case anyone is interested, I've included my scratch
notes on what I went through with this.

Rgds,
Gerald.

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-	Download asterisk, zaptel from CVS

-	Hack zaptel.c and wctdm.c modules to have the kernel_version
	string in them.  This will allow them to be loaded (had to do
	this for SuSE :-().

-	Edit /etc/zaptel.conf to tell the signalling, zone etc...

-	Edit /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf to reiterate this stuff for
	asterisk

-	Run ztcfg -vvv and note the output

HARDWARE WOES
-	Disable xwindows
-	Disable USB (remove /etc/hotplug/usb.rc or rename it)
-	Tweak BIOS IRQ stuff
	THE PCI SLOTS SHOULD BE PCI 2.2 COMPLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	TURN OFF ACPI I.E WHEN BOOTING USE pci=noacpi
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