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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Interrupt-level buffer overflow
Date: 22 Dec 1995 00:08:51 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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st@sw.ru (Stanislav Protasov) writes:

> I've got a problem. When I start X (it doesn't matter via startx or
> xdm) I have the following message after each mouse movement:
> 
> /kernel: sio0: 240 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total
> 498177)

Follow the XFree86 instructions, and set up a ``Clocks'' line in your
XF86Config file.  This will prevent the Xserver from probing the
clocks (where it's disabling interrupts to be accurate).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)