2.6.12.3 clock drifting twice too fast (amd64)

jerome lacoste
2005-08-16T10:10:59Z

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).

I don't have visual on the boot sequence anymore (only remote access).
Kernel earlier than 2.6.11 won't boot on the box (SATA chipset unsupported).

Some info below (probably irrelevant).

What should I try?

Linux manies 2.6.12.3 #1 Thu Jul 28 12:49:15 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

jerome@manies:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5951
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a34
0000:00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437a
0000:00:12.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4379
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373
0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4372 (rev 04)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4376
0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377
0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371
0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc:
Unknown device 4370
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
device 5b60
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
0000:02:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
Video Capture (rev 11)
0000:02:05.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 11)
0000:02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

jerome@manies:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 22456064 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6175 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 241004 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 201574 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 23 IO-APIC-level bttv0
17: 370224 IO-APIC-level ATI IXP
19: 33 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3
20: 221385 IO-APIC-level eth0
21: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
22: 65322 IO-APIC-level libata
23: 0 IO-APIC-level libata
NMI: 9788
LOC: 11226651
ERR: 18