Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ????

Herman Oosthuysen (Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com)
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:07:50 -0700


It is a hardware 'feature', but nothing to worry about. The software
just has to live with it. This problem is as old as the PC itself,
dating back to the original IBM design from 1981.

Cheers,

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Herman Oosthuysen
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AnonimoVeneziano wrote: > I've noticed also that the number indicated by the ERR field in > /proc/interrupts increase slowly with the time. > But, at the end of all I haven't understood well what is this error, and > what the ERR field indicates. And why with IO-APIC it disappears? > (IO-APIC gives me very much problems with ACPI :-( ) > > Bye > > > AnonimoVeneziano wrote: > >> What does it mean this message? >> >> Of what problem is the signal? >> There is a way to solve this? (Next kernel versions) or is an HW >> problem? (Motherboard MSI KT7 Ultra) >> >> Thanks >> >> Bye >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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