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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!netaxs.com!mhv.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!not-for-mail From: cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu (Chris Fanning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stray IRQ 7, in the latest 2.2-SNAP Date: 11 Jul 1996 17:33:15 -0000 Organization: University at Stony Brook Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4s3dsr$3p4@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> References: <aak2.836283946@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4rjr2g$qr3@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <4rlvil$6h7@news.hk.olivetti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Raju M. Daryanani (raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com) wrote: : Mike Mc Gaughey (mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au) wrote: : : aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes: : : 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). It gets betterer and betterer doesn't it? If you have AUTO_EOI enabled in the kernel, turn it off. This fixed the problem for me. I didn't like the messages since they seemed a bit disconcerting. Chris