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 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. -- Herodotus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/