Re: 2.6.1 "clock preempt"?

[john stultz]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:02, timothy parkinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:21:45PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > Its likely you need to enable support in the kernel for your IDE
> > controller, or your DMA on your controller isn't supported.  
> 
> so, apparently the problem was that i just needed to enable dma...  which meant
> that i needed to set "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y" in my .config.
> 
> been running all night/morning with load - no "losing ticks" message or slowing
> clock yet.  thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
> 
> think we could improve that error message?  i'd never have guessed that it was
> hard disk related if you hadn't told me...

Well, lost ticks can be caused by many things, but your point is valid,
the message could be a bit more elightening. 

thanks
-john


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