I see this also on AMD K6 system, ALI chipset (I don't have the precise details handy, will dig them out if required).
I was able to work around the problem by using the "clocksource=tsc"
command line parameter.
The dmesg for 2.6.16 (which worked fine) contained:
PM-Timer running at invalid rate: 200% of normal - aborting.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
but these are not present on 2.6.18 and the default time source is
"acpi_pm" which probably explains the problem.
The check for invalid rate was removed by [0] and the replacement added
by [1] doesn't seem to include an equivalent check.
Cheers,
Ian.
[0]
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=61743fe445213b87fb55a389c8d073785323ca3e
[1]
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5d0cf410e94b1f1ff852c3f210d22cc6c5a27ffa
--
Ian Campbell
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all.
-- Thomas J. Kopp
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
