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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: ISA strayintr 7 - please help!! Message-ID: <CGL8xo.G09@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department References: <2c6nga$2e8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <wilko.753391395@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1993Nov15.223956.12860@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 14:15:22 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1993Nov15.223956.12860@newstand.syr.edu>, Shawn M Carey <smcarey@rodan.syr.edu> wrote: > > Um, I was able to take care of this message by configuring >my kernel without the lpa (interruptless printer driver) in both >386BSD and FreeBSD. I thought (someone coreect me if I'm wrong) >that the message is caused by the kernel receiving a message at >an interrupt that it's not expecting. Since the lpt device uses >irq7, the messages go away. > Strange to say, this solved the problem for me as well. After I read several postings on the subject that said 'there is nothing you can do about it other than comment out the error message', I figured that what I did might have nad nothing to do with the error going away. Anyone have any ideas as to why this worked for both Shawn and I? Regards, Jim