Re: System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel

john stultz
2004-03-30T15:25:56Z

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:00, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 04:22 pm, john stultz held forth thus:
> > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:30, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > > In doing a web search on system clock speeds being too high, I found
> > > entries describing exactly what I am experiencing in the linux-kernel
> > > list archives, but have not yet found a resolution.
> > >
> > > I have Mandrake 10.0, kernel-2.6.3-7mdk installed, on an IBM Thinkpad
> > > 1412 laptop, celeron 366, 512MB RAM. I am finding that my system clock
> > > is ticking away at a rate of about 3:1 vs reality, ie, I count ~3 seconds
> [...]
> > Could you please send me dmesg output for this system?
> >
> Attached is the output of dmesg.

You mentioned that your system is an older laptop, and you're setting
"acpi=on" in your boot arguments. What happens when you omit "acpi=on"?
Do you get a message saying something to the effect of your system being
too old for ACPI? Does everything still work as it ought?

I'm still working on this one.
See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2375 for more details.

thanks
-john