The "calcru: negative...." messages.

[Martin Smith]

Dean Patterson wrote:
> Just to edify all I was getting constant "calcru:
> negative...." messages and I isolated it to ACPI.  To
> remedy this I put an entry in the device.hints file to
> disable ACPI.  Now to edify me;  Is this a good
> aproach?  Any issues by not having ACPI loaded?  Thank
> you all and to all a good night!
> 
> Dean. 
> 
Well, as a brief example, on my old Asus P5A, a worthy mobo I might add, 
with ACPI enabled the system time races forward at a rate totally 
unrelated to that generally accepted, it becomes tomorrow before tea 
time. I have found it most useful to leave it disabled, I dont think I 
am losing anything valuable.

All the best


-- 
Martin Smith