Re: Spurious 8259A Interrupt IRQ 7

From: Ed (ed-=A_at_T=-jmfpub-=D.OT=-com)
Date: 09/14/03 

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 02:08:54 GMT

steve harris wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This one's got me truly baffled. I've searched all over the place
>> for help on this error and everything I find says it's basically a
>> harmless but annoying kernel message. However, in my case, it's
>> showing up when I should see the graphical login after bootup and the
>> X Server fails to load. The only thing I changed was that I installed
>> drivers for a conexant modem that had been sitting idle in the machine
>> since I bought it. I removed the modem (even though it doesn't use
>> IRQ 7) figuring that if I undo what I did, it might just fix it. I
>> don't have any parallel port devices at all on my machine. I'm
>> running Red Hat 9 and everything is up to date according to RHN. If
>> anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.
>
>
> Ed,
> I get that spurious message on all three of my systems, same IRQ7. I
> would suggest that isn't your problem.
>
> Try "startx 2> filename.txt"
>
> This will capture all of the startx error messages.
>
> Steve
>
Just before I read your message, I came to that conclusion myself.
Turns out that Hylafax was causing the spurious error message. The real
problem is in my X font somehow. I'm getting the following in my log:

could not init font path element

and then

Could not load default font fixed (or something like that). I have to
move these computers closer together so I don't forget what I'm doing
while walking between them. I'm googling those right now. 

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