"clock timer configuration lost" error?

Tim Moore (timothymoore@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:18:19 -0800


For no apparent reason:

...
Feb 26 00:15:50 abit xntpd[886]: synchronized to 192.6.38.127, stratum=1
Feb 26 00:19:52 abit kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer
configuration lost - probably a VIA686a.
Feb 26 00:19:52 abit kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip
configuration.
Feb 26 00:26:53 abit xntpd[886]: synchronized to 132.239.254.5,
stratum=2
...

Anyone have a clue about the 'probable hdw bug' messages? No disk
activity to speak of, no other symptoms and/or messages.

rgds,
tim.

# cat proc/version; lspci
Linux version 2.2.19pre8+IDE (root@abit) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #8 Thu Feb 22 18:12:29 PST 2001

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0391 (rev
02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8391
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev
22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev
10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant
IEEE-1394 Controller
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev
20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TNT2 Model 64
(rev 11)

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