spencer@riddering.net wrote: > First I want to say that the install went very well overall! Thanks for > your hard work. > The message "i8253 count to high! resetting.." is printed to the screen on > top of configuration screen. It happened 2 or 3 times, and then later > durring normal system boot. It wasn't clear to me what caused it. It > appeared to show up randomly. dmesg returns healthy messages except the > following: > <snipet> > eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1. > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 > [drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 1156 using kernel context 0 > inserting floppy driver for 2.4.27-1-k7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > i8253 count too high! resetting.. > i8253 count too high! resetting.. > i8253 count too high! resetting.. > </snipet> > "i8253 count too high! resetting.." continues to repeat for a few pages. This seems to be a fairly common problem. Some clock drift may result, but that's all. Base-config should probably be changed to disable kernel logging to the console while it's running to avoid messed up diplays, but I hesitate to make this change at this point in the release cycle, since sometimes kernel messages may be very important to see. > Also, > Despite setting the monitor resolution to 1024x760 @ 75Mhz durring the > installation configuration, when I log in, it appears to be set to 800x600 > @ 75Mhz. The Gnome "Screen Resolution Preferences" window does not allow > me to set my screen resolution to 1024x760 @ 75Mhz. I can only choose > between 800x768 and 640x480. > Hope this helps. I'd suggest filing a bug report on the xserver-xfree86 package with all the relevant details. -- see shy jo
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