Re: lost interrupt hell - Plea for Help

[Erik Steffl]

mikeH wrote:
> 
> You can try compiling without VIA chipset support, but it makes no
> difference.
> Now, with the latest prepatches, -ac patches and ide patches, I am
> getting spurious  "8259A interrupt: IRQ7."
> all over the place too. Seems like the linux kernel does not play well
> with AMD Cpus + VIA chipsets, which
> is a real shame as thats what all my machines are :(

  FWIW I have intel processor. It seems like the 'lost interrupt' while
ripping audio CDs is specific to VIA based motherboards.

	erik

> 
> mikeH
> 
> Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
> >  this is with stable kernel (I tried 2.4.17 and 2.4.18), via config
> >option compiled in (I haven't tried without via support in kernel yet,
> >I'll try that).
> >
> >  any ideas? TIA
> >
> >       erik