On Thursday 29 August 2002 12:58, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 12:36, Smitty wrote:
> > When I booted up today I noted a message in the console I have never seen
> > before: spurious 8259A interrupt. IRQ 7.
> > Can anyone here explain what this means?
> > Smitty
>
> 8259A is the programmable interrupt controller on your motherboard. IRQ
> 7 is usually assigned to your parallel port. Are you having any problems
> with your printer or other parallel device?
No problems with the parallel port or printer. Viewing one of the threads
from the search revealed that it is an innocuous bug in the 2.4 kernel.
If these were a microsoft platform, it would be called "a feature".
>
> I did a quick google search; maybe someone else has had this exact
> problem?:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=spurious
>+8259A+interrupt.++IRQ+7&btnG=Google+Search
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