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> > I recently upgraded from 2.2.19 to 2.4.20 and noted that the via timer > > bugfix has disappeared. > > > > I'm not sure if this is a VIA problem, because it happens on my PIII > > i440BX-based board, Gigabyte GA-6BXE, which does not seem to have any > > chips made by VIA. (82443BX, 32371EB PIIX4, ITE 8671 SuperIO) > > Different people have reported this check triggered on various hardware > which doesn't have VIA686-anything. In my case on both an old AcerNote > and a Toshiba-1800. > OK, it seems in my case it's triggered by the initialization of the X "s3virge" driver (for my s3 virge/dx pci card). It doesn't occur when using "vga" nor when switching ttys. Starting X with s3virge seems to be the only way to trigger it on my system. i'm not very familiar with those problems, i only know that resetting the timer keeps my system clock from going mad. robert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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