Hi Bill, thank you again for your help! Bill Davidsen wrote: > Matter of approach. I would not disable an IRQ until there had been some > number of uncaught interrupts in a row, others feel the number is one. > But there really is an interrupt, so it's probably not a "bug" in that > sense. > >> >> >>> - disable any CPU speed stuff you have running (just for information) >>> >> >> Yes, i'm using cpufreq, but it's a feature i'm not willing to give away >> because the laptop is more silent. The fan works less. >> >> > Noted, but "just for information" would let you see if the speedstep was > the cause, or at least contributed. That would help run it down. Cpuspeed doesn't seem to be the problem. After disabling the service, the problem is still there. > >> >> >>> Yes, that's a shotgun approach, I'm still running 2.6.16.2111 on FC4 >>> because later kernels don't init the video or wireless correctly. >>> >>> >> >> Thank you once again. >> > I have a machine which does zero or one of these, so I'm familiar with > the problem. I am running an older kernel which whines but doesn't > disable, and since I don't need IRQ7 I wouldn't be too unhappy if it did > disable. But I think there's an underlying hardware issue, or at least > hardware to driver mismatch. Since you said irqpoll causes problems > there's definitely something not working right. > Could it be that the noapic kernel parameter influences this behavior? Best regards, simeon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-laptop" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
