Install of 8.0 went well, and this version is really beautiful! But we do have some anomalies, perhaps with the new kernel 2.4.3, that did not show up in 2.4.1 or 2.4.2. >From the time I first rebooted after install, stderr is sending the following lines to syslog (from dmesg): Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... <4>probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. This message repeats through the boot and into syslog during the session....syslog and /var/log/messages were up to 15MB in two days. At the same time, the CPU is getting creamed by the "kapm-idled" process (pid 3 on boot), anywhere from 51-85% of the cycles are being grabbed by this process. I don't know what this process is, but it looks like it has something to do with power management. At this point, if I confirm that the 2.4.3 kernel is having a problem with power management on motherboards with certain Athlon-class chipsets, I might recompile the kernel and take out APM, but I hope Mandrake can check this out and patch the kernel. FYI, I did not get these messages/CPU overload problem with kernels 2.2.18, 2.4.0 or 2.4.1. System Info: Athlon 650 MHz MSI-6195 mobo (AMD 756 chipset) [note: I had similar problems with FreeBSD 4.2 on this board) Corsair PC100 CAS2 SDRAM Appreciate if any Mandrake developers on the list check this out. Tom Snell
