Hi folks. I'm presently using Mandrake 8.0. When in console mode it spits out something like "clock timer configuration lost- probably a VIA/686 motherboard" every couple of minutes. It will show on top of my code, my man pages, my pine screen, my whatever.
My motherboard does NOT have a VIA chipset. It's an asus a7a266 with an AliMagik chipset! What do i do now? Aside from waiting for 8.2 (when is that coming out anyway?) Is it a kernel thing? Should I download the latest 2.4.x kernel? 2.4.3 sounds really early in the kernel tree. Apparently now that 2.5.x already started the 2.4.x are really stable. But I dont really know how to go about installing a new kernel :) And since its a 30M download, well, if that isnt what fixes it, it would have been a big waste of time. So I was hoping you guys could help out. I once had 8.1 installed and it did the same thing, but the CDs were borrowed and I didnt make a copy of them. I deleted my Linux partition to try out Red Hat 7.2 which didnt spit out any messages, but somehow hated my Kyro2 gfx card and couldnt get into X even with the VGA drivers selected. So now I have a fresh mdk8.0 install and well its just so annoying in console mode :) Pc spex: AMD 1333 with 266 FSB 256M DDR asus a7a266 mobo 40 gig Seagate HD, 8 gig linux partition Hercules 3d prophet 4500 (Kyro2 chipset) SB Live etc.
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