Re: [PLUG] Time flies

[Will Dyson <will.dyson@gmail.com>]

On 9/2/05, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> About a month ago I purchased a new computer... a Hewlett Packard Pavillion
> a1130n - Athlon 64 with a gig of RAM, 250GB SATA drive, etc....  Fastest
> computer I've ever owned by more than a factor of 2 :-)
> 
> Promptly made the box dual boot and spend most of my time running KDE from
> SuSE 9.3 professional.  Now... here's the strange thing... my clock runs
> double speed under Linux and straight time under windows.
> 
> The KDE panel clock ticks over one minute every 30 seconds.
> 
> In a shell, this command...
> 
> $ > date; sleep 10; date
> Fri Sep  2 18:45:32 EDT 2005
> Fri Sep  2 18:45:42 EDT 2005
> 
> ... takes takes precisely _5_ seconds to execute :-P
> 
> When I start to set the clock time/date the KDE panel clock "jumps" to the
> correct time (usually) if it's not too far out of sync with reality.  This
> without me "setting" anything - just entering the application to change the
> time/date.

I've noticed a few reports of this on LKML. The current workaround
seems to be the no_timer_check boot option, as seen here:

http://ensode.net/no_timer_check.html

I'm not aware of exactly what is wrong with the boards that exhibit
this problem...

-- 
Will Dyson
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