diff --git a/configs/sim/README.txt b/configs/sim/README.txt
index 2bfd7b941c..641a73ed21 100644
--- a/configs/sim/README.txt
+++ b/configs/sim/README.txt
@@ -682,3 +682,9 @@ traveler
        cd /usr/lib/
        sudo ln -s libXext.so.6.4.0 libXext.so
 
+  4. Don't enable CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_PERFMON.  Timing is
+     really important on the target platform anyway.  But for the
+     simulation platform, timing works very strangely since there
+     are not timer interrupts.  So if this is enabled you will
+     most likely get divide-by-zero errors.
+
diff --git a/configs/sim/traveler/defconfig b/configs/sim/traveler/defconfig
index a5cb6cb4fe..1aaa79b2cd 100644
--- a/configs/sim/traveler/defconfig
+++ b/configs/sim/traveler/defconfig
@@ -234,7 +234,8 @@ CONFIG_NAME_MAX=32
 #
 # RTOS hooks
 #
-# CONFIG_BOARD_INITIALIZE is not set
+CONFIG_BOARD_INITIALIZE=y
+# CONFIG_BOARD_INITTHREAD is not set
 # CONFIG_SCHED_STARTHOOK is not set
 # CONFIG_SCHED_ATEXIT is not set
 # CONFIG_SCHED_ONEXIT is not set
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ CONFIG_STDIO_LINEBUFFER=y
 CONFIG_NUNGET_CHARS=2
 CONFIG_LIBM=y
 # CONFIG_NOPRINTF_FIELDWIDTH is not set
-# CONFIG_LIBC_FLOATINGPOINT is not set
+CONFIG_LIBC_FLOATINGPOINT=y
 # CONFIG_LIBC_IOCTL_VARIADIC is not set
 CONFIG_LIB_RAND_ORDER=1
 # CONFIG_EOL_IS_CR is not set
@@ -552,7 +553,7 @@ CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_PALRANGES=y
 # Debug options
 #
 CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_ROMFSDEMO=y
-CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_PERFMON=y
+# CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_PERFMON is not set
 CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TRAVELER_DEBUG_LEVEL=3
 
 #