--- Mark <msalists@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I got the following problem after my FC3 install: > > Losing too many ticks! > TSC cannot be used as a timesource. > Possible reasons for this are: > You're running with Speedstep, > You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm), > Incorrect TSC synchronization on an SMP system (see dmesg). > Falling back to a sane timesource now. Seems I had this problem when compiling a custom kernel for an a7n8x board recently. hdparm couldn't enable the dma either. It finally worked after adding the correct IDE driver (amd/nforce) for that mobo. Until I corrected the problem disk performance was quite poor. > I have ide=nodma in the boot parameters, since I was not able to > complete the install with that parameter. > If I try to take this parameter out of the grub.conf, I get the below > and the machine does not boot: You may need to compile a custom kernel with the correct driver for your motherboard. Or perhaps get try an updated kernel. -- Richard Molen __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest
