Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262841AbUKRS0j (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262847AbUKRS0h (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:37 -0500 Received: from fsmlabs.com ([168.103.115.128]:64228 "EHLO fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262841AbUKRSYz (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:24:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:24:38 -0700 (MST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Alan Cox cc: kernel-stuff@comcast.net, Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks In-Reply-To: <1100797816.6019.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <111820041702.27846.419CD5AD000313A800006CC6220588448400009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net> <1100797816.6019.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 26 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 17:02, kernel-stuff@comcast.net 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 - 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/