Re: Bizarre bug...

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     The system timebase is based on 8254 Timer 2.  It's set to a
>     full 65536 repeating cycle.  My guess is that the BIOS call
>     used to set the graphics mode is screwing up Timer 2 somehow.
>
>     You could try adding a call to timer_restore() to your kernel.
>     This isn't really a fix, but it might narrow the issue down a
>     bit.  Try it and lets see what happens.

It worked!

Regards,
Sascha

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