From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 16 19: 1:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A321533B for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 19:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA23595; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:31:24 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA87826; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:31:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:31:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris England Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stray irq 7 Message-ID: <19990517113117.N89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris England on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 12:27:00AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 16 May 1999 at 0:27:00 -0700, Chris England wrote: > Hi, > > When I boot my machine, I get an error ( warning ? ) that says > "stray irq 7". Every now and then syslogd reports it as well. ie: > > Apr 30 02:58:55 freebsd /kernel: stray irq 7 > > I don't recall this happening in 2.2.x. > > I have tried enabling it / disabling it in my bios configuration, but it > does not seem to fix the problem This is typically a hardware problem. Some motherboards occasionally generate a spurious interrupt on IRQ 7. I don't know why it has only shown up now, though. I wouldn't worry about it if it's only every now and then. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message