Re: 2.6.12.3 clock drifting twice too fast (amd64)

jerome lacoste
2005-08-16T23:11:29Z

On 8/16/05, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 12:10 +0200, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > Installed stock 2.6.12.3 on a brand new amd64 box with an Asus extreme
> > AX 300 SE/t mainboard.
> >
> > I remember seeing a message in the boot saying something along:
> >
> > "cannot connect to hardware clock."
> >
> > And now I see that the time is changing too fast (about 2 seconds each second).
> [snip]
> > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5951
>
> Looks like the AMD/ATI bug.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927

Sounds like it. I will have to try the patch.

Good catch John!

Jerome