Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:46:31 -0800 | From | George Anzinger <> | Subject | Re: System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel |
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Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In doing a web search on system clock speeds being too high, I found entries > describing exactly what I am experiencing in the linux-kernel list archives, > but have not yet found a resolution. > > I have Mandrake 10.0, kernel-2.6.3-7mdk installed, on an IBM Thinkpad 1412 > laptop, celeron 366, 512MB RAM. I am finding that my system clock is ticking > away at a rate of about 3:1 vs reality, ie, I count ~3 seconds on the system > clock for every 1 real second. I am running ntpd but this is unable to keep > up with the rate of system clock passage. > > I had to slow my keyboard repeat rate _way_ down in order to be able to type > at all as well. The system is limited, in that I have no way to alter the > actual system clock (in bios at any rate). The CPU is properly identified as > a celeron 366. > > Does anyone have any enlightenment, or a fix, to offer? The exact same > software setup on a desktop system, Athlon XP2700+, has no such problems.
Try this in the boot command line "clock=pmtmr". If that fails, then try "clock=pit".
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