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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!mmcg From: mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au (Mike Mc Gaughey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stray IRQ 7, in the latest 2.2-SNAP Date: 5 Jul 1996 19:40:00 GMT Organization: Monash University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4rjr2g$qr3@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> References: <aak2.836283946@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: molly.cs.monash.edu.au X-NNTP-Posting-User: mmcg aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes: >I keep getting the following error message on console : >/kernel: stray irq 7 You have a card configured to use IRQ 7 (that's usually used by a printer port, but could be a sound blaster on factory settings, any of a couple of ethernet cards, or whathaveyou). Your kernel doesn't know about the device (not supported, not compiled in, not detected because of some nonstandard setting), and is complaining about getting these unknown interrupts. Alternately, you have tried to disable the printer port on your multi-IO card (via a strap setting), and this was sufficient to convince the kernel that the card wasn't there, but was insufficient to convince the card to not generate interrupts (this has happened to me). Cheers, Mike. -- Mike McGaughey AARNET: mmcg@molly.cs.monash.edu.au "Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest" - Milton.