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From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff)
Subject: Re: ISA strayintr ff (with 386bsd-0.1-0.2.3)
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 13:44:16 GMT
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In <1t57ruINNn53@gap.caltech.edu> glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) writes:

>I used to get sooo many stray interupts it was insane.. My solution to the 
>problem was to configure a device for every interupt being used by some
>sort of hardward card in my computer.  For instance, in my case it was 
>simply matter of configuring a lpt port for my parallel port card at irq 7..
>not I get absolutely no stray interrupts...  

This almost makes sense now...  I just started getting them, my roomate does
not get them at all.  I use lpa, the interruptless driver, he uses the regular
one, the lpt driver.

I think I'll experiment a bit and see what happens.  Thanks for the tip!

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