From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 11:40:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laguna.tiscalinet.it (laguna.tiscalinet.it [195.130.224.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4ED037BBD2 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcasadei@monrif.net) Received: from an1-173.dialup.tiscalinet.it (62.11.102.173) by laguna.tiscalinet.it; 3 Jul 2000 20:40:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 6366 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jul 2000 18:30:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 20:30:54 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei To: freebsd-questions mailing list Subject: stray irq 7 Message-ID: <20000703203054.A6333@casimirhost.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today while printing I got this error message on root console: Jul 3 20:02:16 casimirhost /kernel: stray irq 7 Jul 3 20:02:16 casimirhost /kernel: stray irq 7 Jul 3 20:02:58 casimirhost last message repeated 4 times Jul 3 20:02:58 casimirhost last message repeated 4 times Jul 3 20:02:58 casimirhost /kernel: too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more Jul 3 20:02:58 casimirhost /kernel: too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more What does it mean? Here's more info on my system. root> uname -a FreeBSD casimirhost.kasby 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 28 09:48:35 CEST 2000 root@casimirhost.kasby:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CASIMIRHOST i386 /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/CASIMIRHOST: [...] # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device ppi # Parallel port interface device [...] root> dmesg [...] ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/7 bytes threshold ppi0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port [...] I have an HP DeskJet 400. Under FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE I was able to print only with polled mode turned on; in interrupt-driven mode the printer was able to print only garbage. Francesco Casadei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message