On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:32:10 -0700 (PDT) 
 Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com> wrote:

 > it looks like you're now getting bit by the bug which has been affecting
 > the AV macs for some time.  it looks like a kernel-size dependency is
 > somehow affecting the direct-to-hardware driver's delay loop timing.
 > switching to the MRG-based driver should serve as a usable workaround
 > (although not the best long-term solution, of course).  turning on the
 > DEBUG option has fixed it for other people.  is the "cpu delay factor"
 > reported for this kernel different than that of previous kernels?

LAME!!!  :-)

So, in working kernel:

cpu: delay factor 355

In broken kernel:

cpu: delay factor 388

"Oh, that's COOL!"

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>