Ingo, Thanks for the reply. But please disregard that patch -- we've cooked up a better one that allows ICH4M to continue to use hpet=force, even for clocksource. (and it is an ACPI patch rather than an x86 patch:-) However, I'll also send a 2nd patch to stop soliciting more hpet=force users, since technically we shouldn't be encouraging the use of this un-documented and lightly-validated hardware. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html