[ATrpms-users] Kernel options question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 20 July 2007 11:55:55 am Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 20 July 2007 08:53:43 am Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:00:21PM +1000, Matthew Moore wrote:
> > > Hi Axel,
> > >
> > > I've been doing some reading on the Myth mailing lists on the strange
> > > occurance of 'galloping' horizontal scrolling.  It seems the problem is
> > > created by the difference between screen refresh rates of NTSC and PAL
> > > (30 vs 25) and can be solved via the tuning of the kernel parameter
> > > "CONFIG_HZ" to a number which is evenly divisible by both formats.  Now
> > > I'm by no means a kernel expert, but I understand that this specific
> > > parameter shouldn't adversely effect most users if it is tweaked to an
> > > alternate setting.
> > >
> > > What's your opinion of changing the default to either 300 or 3000?
> >
> > The tendency is to get to tickless kernels altogether, in fact F7 is
> > shipping such a kernel for i386 by default.
>
> We've got tickless x86_64 in rawhide now too. I believe the forthcoming F7
> 2.6.22.1-based kernels in updates-testing have tickless x86_64 also...

Scratch that on the F7 kernels, tickless x86_64 was shut off in 'em for now. 
So only rawhide has tickless x86_64 at the moment.

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Jarod Wilson
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