Re: Argh, Stray interrupts 2006

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danial Thom wrote:

> My tech tried firing up 1.4 on an opteron MB with
> an HT1000 chipset and, although it seems to work,
> the console is literally flooding with "stray irq
> 7" messages. Freebsd at least suppressed these
> after a few, but when is someone actually going
> to FIX this in BSD? Someone told me years ago
> that this was an Intel chipset bug and there was
> nothing that could be done, but clearly that
> isn't the case here.
>
> whats the workaround solution as the console is
> unusable in its current state?
>
> DT

Same as always:

1) ALT-F2 (3, 4, etc.) before logging in.

2) Edit /etc/syslog.conf to send soem/all console messages elsewhere
- after which (1) is no longer necessary.

Bill