On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:58, ByteEnable wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 00:24 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > On Sunday 17 December 2006 01:05, ByteEnable wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:55 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > > > On Saturday 16 December 2006 18:09, ByteEnable wrote: > > > > > My hardware clock, the actual RTC is keeping rock solid time. My > > > > > computer has a clock on the front panel, that uses the RTC to > > > > > display the time. That output is perfect. Its only the time in > > > > > the kernel/OpenSUSE that is inaccurate and running way too fast. > > > > > > > > Remind me again what kind of processor you have? > > > > Don't know if you mentioned it or I just forgot. > > > > > > Pentium 4 @ 3ghZ, i915 chipset. > > > > Pentium can cover a lot of territory. Is it a 32bit > > machine or 64? Does it appear as a single processor > > or two? > > Its a Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghZ/800mhZ with Hyperthreading (HT) 32-bit running > on the i915 32-bit chipset. > > Byte
If Darryl Gregorash's instructions don't solve it, try going into your bios and turning hyperthreading off for an hour to see if it still drifts. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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