Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:21:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:18:04 -0500 Received: from sproxy.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:32376 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:16:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Sebastian Roth Reply-To: xsebbi@gmx.de Message-Id: <200112062048.45316@xsebbi.de> To: kernel list Subject: spurious interrupt with 2.4.10 and higher ? Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:58:04 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi all! For a long time, I receive at boot time (and in /var/log/warn) the following message from the kernel: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Could you tell me please, what is it? My System works fine but I hate this message. :-) Do you need more information? /proc/cpuinfo says : processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 701.619 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1399.19 /proc/devices says : Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 29 fb 108 ppp 109 lvm 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 180 usb Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 9 md 22 ide1 58 lvm /proc/dma : 1: SoundBlaster8 2: floppy 4: cascade 5: SoundBlaster16 /proc/interrupt : CPU0 0: 2825799 XT-PIC timer 1: 14178 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 1206018 XT-PIC soundblaster 6: 58 XT-PIC floppy 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 11: 238 XT-PIC eth0, usb-uhci, usb-uhci 12: 1177362 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 148838 XT-PIC ide0 15: 284100 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 2825758 ERR: 1550 MIS: 0 information enough? my actual kernel is 2.4.10 with 2.4.16 I've got the same message.. Thank you and Bye, Sebastian - 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/