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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:41:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      opentrax@email.com
To:        chad@DCFinc.com
Cc:        ast@marabu.ch, small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stray irq 7- what does that mean ?
Message-ID:  <200101150841.AAA02533@spammie.svbug.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012302122.OAA29660@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On 30 Dec, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> As I recall, Adrian Steinmann wrote:
>> It means that you have not disabled the parallel port in the BIOS
> 
> Not necessarily.  Motherboard/BIOS combinations that follow the
> Intel recommendations will route any interrupt for which a vector
> has not been programmed to interrupt 7.  There's supposed to be code
> in the IRQ 7 handler that ignores interrupts not requested by the
> parallel port.  Ours prints that message.
> 
You can also check the FAQ. This problem is very common.
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/




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