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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.hk.olivetti.com!raju 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 Organization: Olivetti (HK) Ltd. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4rlvil$6h7@news.hk.olivetti.com> References: <aak2.836283946@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4rjr2g$qr3@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Reply-To: raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rssd.hk.olivetti.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- Raju M. Daryanani Technical Manager | Email: raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com Software & Network Services | raju@hk.super.net, raju@air.org Service Business Unit | Tel: +852 2979 2450 / Fax: +852 2802 6591 Olivetti (HK) Ltd. | [Finger for PGP key] [MIME understood]