13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
11:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:06 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote:
Agreed 100%. I just wonder about the availability of
the required
chip on mainstream motherboards. My machine (2 years old now) doesn't
have it, as far as I'm able to find out. Does anyone have more
visibility on this ?
I guess you're referring to the HPET. The high res timer patch will use
it if available, but it's not required. It works by reprogramming the
PIT, using the TSC or ACPI PM timer for interpolation.
Lee