Re: laptop suspend problems in kernel 2.0.27

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 24 May 1997 09:41:14 +0100 (BST)


> But can somebody explain what is the matter for this bug ? I get the divide
> overflow in getslowtimeoffset. I looked in timer.c but found nothing
> improper. The other solution I found is running some program, that jumps to

Some AMD chips claim to support RDTSC but don't in fact always have the TSC
running. That upsets things. 2.0.27 and so on have a fix for the AMD chip
problem.