Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:02:24 +0100 | From | jerome lacoste <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12.3 clock drifting twice too fast (amd64) |
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On 8/17/05, jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com> wrote: > 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!
Didn't have time to try the patch as my disk died. I installed a fresh ubuntu with 2.6.12 (+ vendor patches) instead of 2.6.12.3, and the issue disappeared.
So maybe ubuntu backported the aforementionned fix to their kernel.
Anyway, one less thing to worry.
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