From: Arjan van de Ven patch below fixes a missing \n in a printk; without this you get to see a <4> in the middle of that line... --- 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c~missing-n-in-timer_tscc arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c~missing-n-in-timer_tscc 2004-04-08 02:30:43.488562624 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c 2004-04-08 02:30:43.492562016 -0700 @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void mark_offset_tsc(void) /* sanity check to ensure we're not always losing ticks */ if (lost_count++ > 100) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Losing too many ticks!\n"); - printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC cannot be used as a timesource. "); + printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC cannot be used as a timesource. \n"); printk(KERN_WARNING "Possible reasons for this are:\n"); printk(KERN_WARNING " You're running with Speedstep,\n"); printk(KERN_WARNING " You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm),\n"); _