Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:52:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: More about 2.4.3 timer problems |
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Eric Gillespie wrote: > >... > VESA fb mode 1280x1024x16, clock lost 1m 35s in time > ... > Same command, normal (non-fb mode) lost no time off clock.
Is due to the 2.4.3 console drivers. They block interrupts during console output. There's a fix in 2.4.2-ac<recent>.
There's also a patch against 2.4.3-pre6 at
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/console.html
If you'd care to test the 2.4.3-pre6 patch for a while, that'd be useful.
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