Bug 102973 - i8253 count too high
Summary: i8253 count too high
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 97000
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brian Maly
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: RHEL3U8CanFix
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Reported: 2003-08-23 23:16 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-06-23 18:19:35 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0437 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8 2006-07-20 13:11:00 UTC

Description Chris Ricker 2003-08-23 23:16:42 UTC 
This is an HP Pavilion 4400 series laptop (more-or-less standard Athlon / ALI
laptop)

kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl

When I boot up, and as I run, dmesg gets multiple of the following message:

i8253 count too high! resetting..
i8253 count too high! resetting..
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-08-25 17:57:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97000 ***
Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-06-23 18:19:35 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97000 ***
Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2006-04-07 03:16:19 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U8
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-40.6.EL).
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