Well I read that even ICH3 chipsets did support HPET, though they do have different adresses and are not recognized correctly until now. I am not an expert on that topic, but maybe there is a chance that my laptop has the feature and I may be able to use it - at least I hope so ;)
Peter On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 15:14 +0200, Benjamin Pineau wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:06:02PM +0200, Peter Ganzhorn wrote: > > One question about HPET: > > > > I applied the force-enable HPET patch to my current kernel (2.6.22-rc3), > > recompiled it and still HPET seem to be disabled... > > What do I have to do to make it work? (I'm running a ICH4 chipset) > > Your hardware may not support HPET. > http://www.linuxpowertop.org/faq.php says : > > Which chipsets support HPET timers? > If you have an ICH6 or higher chipset, you should be fine. Some support > exists on ICH5M chipsets. > > So I guess ICH4 may not do HPET. > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
