Oliver Endriss wrote: > Carsten Koch wrote: >>I upgraded my VDR system from SuSE 9.2 with vanilla kernel 2.6.11 >>to SuSE 9.3 with SuSE kernel 2.6.11.4-20a-default. >>In both cases I use the DVB drivers that came with the kernel. >> >>With the SuSE kernel, I am getting "irq 7: nobody cared" quite >>often (18 times yesterday). Here is the latest: > > Iirc this is a very old problem with 8259-style interrupt controllers. > > If an interrupt input is not asserted long enough the chip is unable to > identify the real interrupt source. It will detect a phantom IRQ 7 irq. > > Try to assign a different interrupt to the pci slot. OK. I guess I can swap the network card and the budget card.... The strange thing is, I have not had a single "irq 7: nobody cared!" error under vanilla kernel 2.6.11 (all hardware exactly the same). Just grepped for it in my logs between February and last Friday. The problem appeared the moment I installed SuSE 9.3 with the SuSE kernel. Pure coincedence? Carsten.
