Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 17:02, kernel-stuff@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I tried all the newer kernels including -ac. All have the same 
> > problem.
> > 
> > Andi - On a side note, your change "NVidia ACPI timer override" 
> > present in 2.6.9-ac8 breaks on my laptop - I get some NMI errors ("Do 
> > you have a unusual power management setup?") and DMA timeouts - 
> > happens regularly.
> 
> Ok ACPI timer override probably goes back into the broken bucket and out
> of -ac in -ac11 then.

I think it's more a broken system, booting with noapic (as is what 
happened before) should get things back to normal. Parry, have you updated 
the BIOS on your laptop?

Thanks,
	Zwane

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