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Re: seeing crashes? read this... YUP... on intel also

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Sep 26 06:27:23 1996

From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: babydr@nwrain.net (babydr)
Date: 	Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:02:04 +0100 (BST)
Cc: kenjordan@massmedia.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
        submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.VUL.3.94.960923214145.12661B-100000@pppbox.baby-dragons.com> from "babydr" at Sep 23, 96 09:48:35 pm

> 	has made no difference the 'divide error: 0000' still persists
> 	at the location (from /System.map)
> 	0010ec3c t do_fast_gettimeoffset

Go to the bottom of arch/i386/kernel/time.c and you will see a piece
of code checking x86_capability&16 - just change that so it always fails
ie to  if(0)

Or if you dont want to hack code, enable APM support


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