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From: raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com (Raju M. Daryanani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stray IRQ 7, in the latest 2.2-SNAP
Date: 6 Jul 1996 15:09:09 GMT
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Mike  Mc Gaughey (mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:

: >I keep getting the following error message on console :

: >/kernel: stray irq 7

: Alternately, you have tried to disable the printer port on your
: multi-IO card (via a strap setting), and this was sufficient to
: convince the kernel that the card wasn't there, but was insufficient to
: convince the card to not generate interrupts (this has happened to me).

I also see them on a machine where I built a kernel minus the lpt driver
(no printer attached).  I didn't disable the LPT port (not sure if I can
since it's an old 386).

Raju
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