Re: A7A266 clock timer configuration lost

[Marco Colombo]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Martin Bauer wrote:

> hello,
>
> is anyone using a ASUS A7A266 without the clock timer configuration lost
> messages?
>
> so are there only some A7A266 board with this problem an replacing
> the board could fix it - or do i just have to life with the bug and
> a spammed syslog.
>
> --
> kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a
> VIA686a motherboard.
> kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.
> --
>
> thx, martin
>
>
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I have 3 of them, all show the problem. I'd suggest to remove the
"probably a VIA686a motherboard" at least, it's quite misleading:

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247
00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:06.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
00:11.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 03)

there's no VIA686a in sight... B-)

I haven't tested xntpd yet, I'm curious to see if that's really a problem
of some kind with timekeeping or not. I'll do that ASAP.

BTW, these MBs crash randomly if you don't use the 'noapic' boot option.

.TM.
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