Re: Clock going way too fast on 2.6.15 for amd64 processor

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 19:39:35 EST


Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2006 01:28 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:54:45AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2006 00:39 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried digging through the mess in
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927
> > > but got lost in a see of conflicting patches.
> > >
> > > I too have a amd64 box that is showing that the clock is running way too
> > > fast (feels about double speed, haven't checked for sure.) I'm running
> > > it in 32bit mode for now, and the boot dmesg is below.
> > >
> > > Any hints on patches that I should test out to try to track this down?
> > > I haven't run any real old kernels on it to see if it is something new
> > > (shows up on a 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 kernel too.)
> >
> > Did you try "disable_timer_pin_1" on the kernel command line?
>
> Nice, that worked just fine, no kernel patch needed. Thanks for
> pointing it out to me, I totally missed it.
>
> Now to go fix the usb irq "ignore" issue for this machine, and I'll be
> able to switch to using it all the time...

My machine which needs this is basically useless without ACPI.

HTH
Oliver
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