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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Romain Moyne <aero_climb@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Time runs exactly three times too fast
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:32:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901123231.GA10829@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409021614.10377.aero_climb@yahoo.fr>

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:14:09PM +0200, Romain Moyne wrote:
 > Le Mercredi 01 Septembre 2004 14:15, Zwane Mwaikambo a écrit :
 > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Romain Moyne wrote:
 > > > Hello, I'm french, sorry for my bad english :(
 > > >
 > > > I have a problem with my kernel: Time runs exactly three times too fast.
 > > >
 > > > I tested the kernel 2.6.8.1 and the 2.6.9-rc1, no success.
 > > > It is really strange because yesterday I reinstalled my debian with a
 > > > kernel 2.6.8.1 (made by me): Time ran correctly. And this morning when I
 > > > rebooted my computer (Compaq presario R3000 series, R3215EA exactly) the
 > > > time is running again three times too fast (with the kernel 2.6.8.1 and
 > > > 2.6.9-rc1).
 > > >
 > > > All my applications (KDE, command "date"...) runs three times too fast.
 > > > It's very annoying.
 > >
 > > Can you try this without cpuspeed or some frequency control daemon
 > > running? So disable it in runlevel scripts and then reboot.
 > 
 > I have not cpuspeed or some frequency control daemon running. I just have 
 > this:
 > 
 > presario:/etc/rc2.d# ls
 > S10sysklogd  S20alsa   S20makedev  S20xprint  S99kdm            S99xdm
 > S11klogd     S20exim4  S20pcmcia   S89atd     S99rmnologin
 > S14ppp       S20inetd  S20xfs      S89cron    S99stop-bootlogd
 > presario:/etc/rc2.d#

Do you get any messages prefixed with 'cpufreq' or 'powernow' in your
dmesg output ?
Do you have files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq ?
If so, what do they contain?

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 12:53 Time runs exactly three times too fast Romain Moyne
2004-09-01 12:15 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-01 12:18   ` Oliver Hunt
2004-09-01 12:28     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-01 12:32       ` Oliver Hunt
2004-09-02 14:14   ` Romain Moyne
2004-09-01 12:32     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-09-01 12:35     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-02 15:08       ` Romain Moyne
2004-09-01 13:00         ` Dave Jones
2004-09-02 16:31           ` Romain Moyne
2004-09-01 13:14             ` Dave Jones
2004-09-01 13:58             ` Paul Rolland
2004-09-01 20:19 ` john stultz
2004-09-02  5:46   ` Oliver Hunt
2004-09-02 18:18     ` john stultz

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