Add an entry about ``stray IRQ'' messages.

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Submitted by:	Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.260 2001/08/31 17:04:49 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.261 2001/09/03 03:09:59 brian Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
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your problem.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="stray-irq">
<para>What does <errorname>stray IRQ</errorname> mean?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ glitches,
mostly from hardware that removes its interrupt request in
the middle of the interrupt request acknowledge
cycle.</para>
<para>One has three options for dealing with this:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Live with the warnings. All except the first 5
per irq are suppressed anyway.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Break the warnings by changing 5 to 0 in
<function>isa_strayintr()</function> so that all the
warnings are suppressed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Break the warnings by installing parallel port
hardware that uses irq 7 and the ppp driver for it (this
happens on most systems), and install an ide drive or
other hardware that uses irq 15 and a suitable driver
for it.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="file-table-full">
<para>Why does <errorname>file: table is full</errorname> show up