From: Praedor Atrebates <praedor@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:57:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403261657.22738.praedor@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4064A4B7.5030103@mvista.com>
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On Friday 26 March 2004 04:46 pm, George Anzinger held forth thus:
> Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > 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.
[...]
> Try this in the boot command line "clock=pmtmr". If that fails, then try
> "clock=pit".
What is the difference between the two settings? I used the latter and it
worked (didn't try "clock=pmtmr").
praedor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-26 19:30 System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel Praedor Atrebates
2004-03-26 21:22 ` john stultz
2004-03-26 21:54 ` Praedor Atrebates
2004-03-26 23:09 ` john stultz
[not found] ` <200403261800.32717.praedor@yahoo.com>
2004-03-26 21:57 ` john stultz
2004-03-26 22:05 ` Praedor Atrebates
2004-03-26 22:18 ` Praedor Atrebates
2004-03-30 15:25 ` john stultz
2004-04-06 21:46 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-03-26 21:46 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-26 21:57 ` Praedor Atrebates [this message]
2004-03-27 16:09 ` George Anzinger
[not found] <1E4zj-77w-69@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-25 9:22 ` Joris van Rantwijk
2004-05-25 20:53 ` john stultz
2004-05-25 20:58 ` john stultz
2004-05-26 22:43 ` Joris van Rantwijk
2004-05-26 23:08 ` john stultz
2004-05-27 13:32 ` Bill Davidsen
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