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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tijmen Ramakers <tijmen@dse.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /kernel stray irq 7 ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624215612.29163x-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624141158.22781A-100000@dse.dse.nl>

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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tijmen Ramakers wrote:

> I frequently get a message '/kernel: stray irq 7', at seemingly random
> moments. Can anyone tell me what it means?

It means that some device is generating interrupts and there is no device
driver to pick them up.  Eventually the kernel with start ignoring them.

> There's nothing at IRQ 7.

Some botherboard and I/O cards use 7 as a `junk IRQ'; my ASUS does this
when I close the mouse port.

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


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