Messages in this thread | | | From | Praedor Atrebates <> | Subject | Re: System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:57:06 -0500 |
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On Friday 26 March 2004 04:46 pm, George Anzinger held forth thus: > 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 > > on the system clock for every 1 real second. I am running ntpd but this > > is unable to keep up with the rate of system clock passage. [...] > Try this in the boot command line "clock=pmtmr". If that fails, then try > "clock=pit".
What is the difference between the two settings? I used the latter and it worked (didn't try "clock=pmtmr").
praedor
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