RE: NTP broken with 2.6.14

john stultz
2005-11-04T04:07:19Z

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 22:44 -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
> NFORCE2 on an ACPI-enabled kernel should automatically invoke
> the acpi_skip_timer_override BIOS workaround -- as
> the NFORCE family of chip-sets have the timer interrupt
> attached to pin-0, but some of them shipped with
> a bogus BIOS over-ride telling Linux the timer is on pin-2.
>
> This issue is quite old -- google NFORCE2 and acpi_skip_timer_override.
> IIR there are whole web-sites with NFORCE2
> workarounds provided by its dedicated fans...

Thanks for the info, Len. Although its odd that the Jean-Christian's
issue appears to show up around the time the fix you mention shows up.

Regardless, Jean-Chistian has some sever BIOS problems, so until those
are resolved, I suggest he use the workaround (noapic) and ping us if
the issue persists once he arrives at a supportable configuration.

thanks
-john