Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:10:15 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>..
>> And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted
>> a couple of times now, here's another:
>> [    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
>> [    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
>> what the heck is that trying to tell me to do, in some sort of broken
>> english?
>
>..
>
>I think it says this:
>
>  "If your system is misbehaving, then try adding the
> acpi_use_timer_override keyword to your kernel command line
> (/boot/grub/menu.lst) and see if it helps."
>
>So, you can either hardcode it in /boot/grub/menu.lst (just add it to the
> end of the first line you see there that begins with the word "kernel".
>
>Or you can just try it temporarily at boot time (safer, but tricker),
>by catching GRUB (the bootloader) before it actually loads Linux.
>
>Usually there's some key or something it says you have 3 seconds to hit for
> a "menu", so do that, and then use the cursor keys to find the first
> "kernel" line in that menu and hit "e" (edit) to go and add the
> acpi_use_timer_override keyword to the end of that line (same as above).
>
>Hit enter when done, and then the letter b (boot) to load Linux with that
> option.
>
>Clear as mud, right?  :)

Precisely Mark.  Thanks, I'm building an ide-ata kernel 2.6.24 now, and I've 
added that to the argument line for 2.6.24-rc8.

Thanks mark.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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