AMD Athlon -- clock run 2x faster under linux

[Greg Felix]

I have an HP laptop with an Athlon Turion64 chip that was doing the same
thing at one point.

I couldn't tell you for sure what fixed it without doing some tests.  It
might have been passing the kernel acpi=off (which would probably affect
a myriad of other things, like fans).  It also could have been passing
the kernel `noapic nolapic`.  I think the l stands for local??  Also, I
vaguely remember a problem that went away when I changed my kernel to a
modular one (vs everything built in), strange but true.

So those are my ideas:

acpi=off
noapic (and nolapic)
modular kernel (if you don't have one already)

Sorry I can't remember what fixed it for me.

Greg

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:55 -0600, justin gedge wrote:
> apic vs. acpi-- yeah-- those are my dyslexic fingers at the keyboard-- 
> that's the option I tried-- and it fixed the clock and took out the 
> network.  I guess as a last resort-- if I'm online-- I could have a 
> cronjob set to update the clock every second or something dumb like that 
> -- and just pass in the noapic at boot if I'm going to be offline.
> 
> as far as kernel-- I've run the SuSE updates and have the current kernel 
> that SuSE blesses
> 
> jgedge at emmett:~> uname -a
> Linux emmett 2.6.11.4-21.8-default #1 Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> haven't tried a bios update-- I'll look into that.
> 
> 
> Justin Gedge
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tyler Strickland wrote:
> 
> > On 08/30/2005 12:28 PM, Tyler Strickland wrote:
> >
> >> On 08/30/2005 11:57 AM, justin gedge wrote:
> >>
> >>> Recently bought an hp laptop [hp pavilion zv6170us].  It's a fairly 
> >>> nice machine with an AMD Athlon64 in it.
> >>> ...
> >>> The real issue that's burning me up right now is the system clock is 
> >>> running faster than it should -- like 2x faster.
> >>> ...
> >>> Anyone ever see anything like this before?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have, but it's been a while so I don't remember exactly how I fixed 
> >> it.  What kernel version are you running?  Have you tried upgrading 
> >> your kernel?  Your bios?  I'll keep racking my brain to see if I can 
> >> remember the fix...
> >
> >
> > Another thought - you might try disabling APIC instead of ACPI at boot 
> > (noapic)
> >
> > --Tyler
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