Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:37:25 +0100 | From | AnonimoVeneziano <> | Subject | Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ???? |
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David D. Hagood wrote:
> AnonimoVeneziano wrote: > >> What does it mean this message? >> >> Of what problem is the signal? > > > It is most likely a hardware problem. > > When a device signals an interrupt, it asserts its interrupt pin. When > the CPU asks the interrupt controller what device generated the > interrupt, the interrupt controller tells the CPU. > > But if the interrupt line "goes away" before the CPU fetches the > vector, then the interrupt controller doesn't "know" what IRQ caused > the interrupt. So the interrupt controller sends an IRQ #7 to the CPU, > along with setting a bit in the interrupt controller's status register > that says in effect "this isn't really an IRQ 7, but I have no idea > what it was. Sorry." > > If you have ISA cards in your system, remove them from the system and > re-insert them (with the power off, of course) - they may have > developed some oxidization on the card edge connector. You can also > try scrubbing the card edge with some plain paper (a US dollar bill > works even better, but you might not have access to dead presidents in > Italy.) > > Ditto with PCI cards - remove them, polish the connector, then > re-insert them. > > > Thank you very much all of you for the answers.So, this should be an harmless message, I've tried to attach something to the parallel port , or disable it in the bios, but doesn't work, the only way to remove this problem is to load the parport_pc module, this message with the module loaded doesn't appear. I've tried with other bioses , and the problem appears on all of them. If I compile in the kernel UP-IO-ACPI the problem disappears, but I have a lot of other problems, because my system is quite young and the support for IO-APIC is not added yet for me.If I use only UP-APIC this problem appears, and if don't use apic this disappears.
I'll try to remove some HW and retry. Someone had this problem without APIC enabled?
Thank you
Bye
Marcello
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