justin gedge wrote: > Recently bought an hp laptop [hp pavilion zv6170us]. It's a fairly > nice machine with an AMD Athlon64 in it. > > Still not done wrestling the ATI drivers-- so I get to live with a > stretched out XGA until I get the drivers for video figured out-- but > I can handle that just fine. > > The real issue that's burning me up right now is the system clock is > running faster than it should -- like 2x faster. > > SuSE tech support recommended passing the noapci to the kernel at > bootup. This fixed the clock bus disabled networking. > > The next bit of advice was to pass the notsc option to the kernel-- > this didn't appear to fix anything. > > I've looked at the /etc/adjtime file-- and this provides a mechanism > for clock skew-- but it's for stuff like a 5 sec drift per day or > something small like that-- it doesn't deal with 2x differences in the > system clock. I could try just ntp -- but again-- this is for small > changes when your system clock works [but happens to be off by less > than 10 minutes]. > > Anyone ever see anything like this before? > > > oh-- the typical info-- running SuSE93 the X64 version for the athlon > etc..... > in your grub.conf (or before bootup) try adding the option "no_timer_check" on the kernel line... worked for my little brothers X86_64 box.
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