On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:43 -0800, Jon Hoskins wrote: > This is news to me! Before I go recompiling my kernel again does > anyone > have any good idea why this was changed since 2.6.12? To save power on laptops. A multimedia-friendly distro would have left this at 1000HZ. > In other words, > (once I figure out how to) will a post-2.6.12 kernel recompiled to > use > 1000Hz break anything else? No it won't. IMHO it reflects badly on any distro that changed the default to 250HZ. Lee