Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 missing some docs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810231011060.28673-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981023032536.0075034c@207.227.119.2>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 08:55 AM 10/22/98 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >I'd have to install 3.0 on my -STABLE workstation to test this. It may be > >that the message was hidden behind bootverbose since it doesn't mean > >anything and there's nothing you can do about it. My workstation spits > >out an IRQ 7 each time the serial port is closed. Wacky, eh? I have a > >ASUS T2P4 board. > > Ah, very wacky since I've only seen this before on a T2P4 with both FBSD > and BSDi _and_ neither had any com ports in the kernel _nor_ was it enabled > in BIOS. You'll see it if your lpt port is in polled mode, like mine is. I discovered this tidbit the hard way with the qcam driver; every time I logged out of X the system would panic. I finally got a VT320 and ran a serial console and figured out what was going on. At first I thoguht the motherboard was bad and hd it replaced, and it did the same thing. > Is this worth pursing? There were no problems (AFAIK) with the strays, but > if this is a bug of some sort... It's a hardware-ism. IRQ 7 is the generic junk IRQ. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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