I was looking at dmesg for something completely different and just noticed this repeated 5 times:
probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. Except I'm using the Triton II/TC430HX chipset. I've never noticed this before, although I also have that irritating RTC / "char_major_10_135" problem. Are they related? This is a stock 2.2.20 kernel, right off Ian Eure's netinst 3.0 CD (no ReiserFS or anything, just plain vanilla, I assume). Jeff Bonner PGP Key ID = 0x750C5FC2 Fingerprint = 9BBA A791 014A 33DE 9BCC 8B4E AD28 3CB0 750C 5FC2