On Saturday 10 August 2002 15.07, Marco Teeuwen wrote:
Hello everybody,
on one of my machines, I always get this message on the console or xconsole.
The machine: Athlon 1000 with SuSE 8.0 GeForce2 GTS SBPCI + SBLive. RTL8139 clone nic
Does anybody have an idea what is causing this? It doesn't seem to cause any harm, but I'm just curious.
According to http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/applnots/27282301.pdf a spurious interrupt is when an interrupt is issued but turned off before it can be acknowledged. Sort of a power blip on the interrupt pin. Also, according to the 8259A source in the kernel, it's "usually a sign of hardware problems" (/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/i8259.c) regards Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'