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Bug 102973

Summary:	i8253 count too high
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Brian Maly <bmaly>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	petrides, riel
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Hardware:	athlon
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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).