Re: lost interrupt hell - Plea for Help

Mike (mikeh@notnowlewis.co.uk)
Fri, 17 May 2002 09:49:48 +0100


Yeah, the spurious interrupt does seem to be an AMD apic problem, but the lost
interrupt (on ripping audio) seems to be a VIA chipset problem, as people
with KT266 chipsets are having boot problems / audio rip problems regardless
of the processor type. Lucky me, I get both ;)

mike

On Thursday 16 May 2002 9:50 pm, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> Sorry for the delay...
>
> I build a 2.4.19-pre8-ac4 kernel without local apic and now after running
> for 4 hours I still did NOT get the message "spurious 8259A interrupt:
> IRQ7." while with apic enabled the message appears after ~3 min... so this
> is local apic related.
>
> This is an athlon on a SIS-chip mobo.
>
> I also found this in dmesg:
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
> PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:02.0
>
> and this from lspci:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0735
> (rev 01)
>
> also related??
>
> Rudmer
>
> At 10:38 11-5-02 +0200, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> >At 09:32 11-5-02 +0100, mikeH wrote:
> >>You can try compiling without VIA chipset support, but it makes no
> >>difference.
> >>Now, with the latest prepatches, -ac patches and ide patches, I am
> >>getting spurious "8259A interrupt: IRQ7."
> >>all over the place too. Seems like the linux kernel does not play well
> >>with AMD Cpus + VIA chipsets, which
> >>is a real shame as thats what all my machines are :(
> >
> >It's not only with VIA chipsets, I have an Athlon system with a SIS
> > chipset and there I get the spurious "8259A interrupt: IRQ7." as well...
> > luckily the message is only displayed once, but it always appears in the
> > first 15 min after startup.
> >
> > Rudmer
>
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