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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: ISA strayintr 7 Message-ID: <CJHAvz.BrI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department References: <CJ32xH.M0K@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1994Jan11.161238.18213@picker.com> <2guk5sINNsg9@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 18:47:58 GMT Lines: 36 In article <2guk5sINNsg9@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, Shawn Brown <shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote: >In article <1994Jan11.161238.18213@picker.com>, >Rob Logan <rob@ct.picker.com> wrote: >>I'm trying to install freebsd from the cdrom and I'm getting >> >>ISA strayintr 7 >> >>right after /386bsd is loaded... I removed EVERYTHING from my system >>so I only have the bt445s and a et4000 vga card... no ethermet, sound >>or even lpd and com ports. > >I had this problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD for the longest time. >It was pretty frustrating cause I really couldn't get anyone to help >me. I recently switched back to FreeBSD 1.0r, and ran into a great >document that explained this to me. Basically, if you have an interrupt >driven printer card, you don't want to use the lpa driver that the FreeBSD >generic kernel detects. You want to change the kernel config to use the >lpt driver. Once I did this, I haven't had a problem with strayintr 7's. > >Try it and see if it works for you. > >Shawn It was my understanding that this did not stop the strayintr 7 error itself, that the printer driver simply absorbed the error and you never saw the message printed to the screen. Might as well just comment out the error message in the code itself ... -- - pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu ^ | James J. Pitts - - Most people are sheep. /@\ | IU Physics Dept - - Only a select few are fit to rule. / \ | Voice: 812-855-8247 - - We are The Bavarian Illuminati. /_____\ | FAX : 812-855-5533 -