mp-bios bug 8254 timer not connected

[eric-yrHdaQSNc4gdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org (eric)]

eric wrote:
> hi all.  i get this error message at boot.  i've had it before on my 
> computer and turned off apic somehow and the problem went away.  that 
> was ~6 months ago and of course i've forgotten what the heck i did. 
> anyway, i'm playing around with fedora 6 on the same computer and have 
> tried all the magical incantations but nothing seems to work. 
> pci=noapic, noapic, noapic nolapic, noacpi noapic, noacpi noapci 
> nolapic, acpi=off...  anybody else in a similar situation and what did 
> you do?  thanks, eric c.
> 
> hp media center m7334n
> x68_64 amd dual core 3800+
> release: 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
> 
> 

'enable_8254_timer' makes the error go away but now my computer acts 
like it has drunk far too much coffee.

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