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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: james earl <james_earl@agt.net>
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Subject: Re: Stray IRQ 7
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, james earl wrote:

> While trying to get the XFree86 distribution via FTP, I get the
> following message/error, which disconnects me from my server:
> 
> [date][host] /kernel: stray irq 7
> 
> Anyone have any solutions?
> 
> I also get messages in that similar format ([date][host][message]) quite
> a bit... enough to make it thoroughly annoying.  Can these be turned
> off?

What is allocated to IRQ 7?  Something is generating spurious IRQs, it
could mean some broken hardware.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major