My dmesg is also showing the line "spurious 8259A interrupt: IQ7".
I am on a Tyan S3970 with 2 CPU's (8 cores), a TARO card & 20G memory. ** Attachment added: "dmesg, uname, lspci, version" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/75626/+attachment/3789866/+files/bugreport.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75626 Title: spurious 8259 interrupt disabled IRQ Status in The Linux Kernel: Fix Released Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “linux-source-2.6.20” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: on a hp pavilion dv9043ea. it seems that there is a irq problem. in /var/log/kern.log is a line "spurious 8259A interrupt: irq 7". after a while of using the desktop irq 7 is disabled (the usb2 port). i have to manually remove ehci_hcd to get usb working again (at 1.1 speed). the same problem is persisting in dapper and edgy as well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/75626/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

