Dear Andy, Thanks for the reply. I'm embarassed that I didn't do a proper job of searching for the answer myself.
One possible source of the problem may be that I have a routing conflict between irq 7 and irq 9 caused by my sound card clashing with the sound device built into the motherboard (dmesg tells me this). But if I remove the sound card, I get no sound - the sound port on the motherboard doesn't seem to work. Thanks again for the help. best regards, Robert On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:09:17 -0500 Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > > For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: > > > > "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" > > > > I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what > > it means? > > I did a little searching for you. There was a recent thread on this. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg05114.html > > Then I found this for you: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#spurious-8259A-interrupt > > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ14 > > Short summary: It's a hardware problem (usually). Transient Line-noise/crosstalk > persuades the PIC > that something happened; this can result in a 'dummy' interrupt being raised, which > happens to be IRQ7 > with intel's 8259 design.The problem could possibly also be caused by (or instead be > caused by) a device > driver not properly masking its interrupts before servicing, this would be the > suspect if the IRQ7's were > happening in bursts, or more often than 'several' per day. (Source and additional > information) > > Since the message itself is harmless, it's enough to adjust the default loglevel > outplut of klogd (the > -c opion) in the syslogd bootscript. See man klogd for details. You can also try > recompiling the kernel > and unset CONFIG_LOCAL_APIC. > > > -Andy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
