spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7

[Brian Kelsay]

Try enabling the parallel port and see if you get the message.  Since
Linux takes over from the BIOS and reinitializes all devices, it may see
the port and may be trying to activate it.   Did you have the port
active when you installed Red Hat to the machine?   You may have
reference to this parallel port in one of the config files and it can't
initialize is what I'm trying to say.   It's late I'm going to bed.
Excuse any weirdness in this post.

Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert D Oden" <roden at dbasetek.com>
To: <jmccright2 at home.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7

> I already had it turned off due to the fact this machine is strictly a
> web/mail server. If it helps this is a AMD 1GHZ running RedHat 7.1
>
> Thanks
> Doug
>
> At 02:15 AM 8/11/01, Jeffrey A. McCright wrote:
> >Sounds like you are getting noise on your Parallel printer port. Try
> >disabling the printer port in CMOS and see if error persists.
> >
> >Good Luck,
> >
> >Jeff McCright
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:   roden [mailto:roden at dbasetek.com]
> >Sent:   Friday, August 10, 2001 5:04 PM
> >To:     kclug at kclug.org
> >Subject:        spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7
> >
> >I am getting this line in my dmesg file  and from time to time at the
> >login prompt. Could someone shed some light on this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Doug
> >
> >