Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:28:39 -0400 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions |
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:10:46PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:36:25 -0400 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Lats night I loaded 2.6.27-rc8-tip for the first time on my AMD Turion > > 64 laptop that is normally runs with Fedora distribution kernel. > > Compared to 2.6.25 the thing is broken - hdparm reports about 3MB/sec > > speed, fans are constantly on, everything seems sluggish. > > > > Booting with hpet=force (HPET is disabled in BIOS) hangs the box > > somewhere in tty_init. > > hpet=force is a "the kernel thinks it's not wise to use, but you think > better"... don't do that ;( >
That is not how I parse dmesg:
[ 0.077927] HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot option
Here kernel recommends to try and enable it. If we generally don't recommed using 'force' I'd suggest removing the 2nd sentence from the message.
-- Dmitry
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