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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 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 > > .-----------------------------------. > > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > > `-----------------------------------' > > > > .-----------------------------------. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `-----------------------------------' .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
