From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 21:05:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21933 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21915 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA25739; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 02:04:29 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199610180404.CAA25739@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Stray IRQ 7 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 02:04:28 -0200 (EDT) Cc: james_earl@agt.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Oct 17, 96 08:22:22 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Doug White) // 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. Surely some broken hardware, but not necesarily someone at IRQ 7. IRQ 7 is the "last option" for the interrupt controller. It's used when a interrupt has happened but it does not know which. Everytime this happened to me it was a cheap and faulty IDE controller, but I think an older parallel port can also generate this. // // Doug White | University of Oregon // Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant // http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major // // Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro