Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 May 2002 14:58:57 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: odd timer bug, similar to VIA 686a symptoms |
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:40:40PM +1000, Neale Banks wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > [...] > > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > [...] > > > Neptune chipsets at least had latching bugs on timer reads. What chipset > > > is the laptop ? > > > > This is unlikely to be the latching bug - note the values are near to > > 65535 - that means the timer is reprogrammed to count from 0xffff down > > instead from LATCH. That is because of the suspend I presume. What's > > weird is that the VIA fix doesn't program it to the correct value, or > > perhaps is that missing from the patch? > > Yes, my version of your patch includes an option to disable the via686a > fix (and this was in effect at the time - I'm still cringing in fear from > nasty FS corruption that ensued after a "probable hardware bug: restoring > chip configuration" message last October :-( - yes it may be unlikely > that it's related, but I don't yet have any other suspects. FWIW, the > machine also locked up then).
It shouldn't be able to do anything like that ...
> Any suggestions smarter than backing up everything "important" and running > the battery down with the VIA fix enabled?
Nope. ;)
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