From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 21:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17867 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17838 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09730; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:57:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tijmen Ramakers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel stray irq 7 ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tijmen Ramakers wrote: > I frequently get a message '/kernel: stray irq 7', at seemingly random > moments. Can anyone tell me what it means? It means that some device is generating interrupts and there is no device driver to pick them up. Eventually the kernel with start ignoring them. > There's nothing at IRQ 7. Some botherboard and I/O cards use 7 as a `junk IRQ'; my ASUS does this when I close the mouse port. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message