I have the clock bug as well, nVidia-based r3000. It shows up most of the time on battery power, I've maybe had it twice on AC, but near to 90% of the times I boot from battery it shows up.
Sean On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 21:00 +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Hey, > > D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > Perhaps nobody still has this problem. More likely, anybody with this > > problem may well have given up on Linux. > > I still do have the problems and believe me, I'll trash this piece of > crap they call a laptop before giving up on Linux :) > > > If you have a problem like this (clock running at double speed), but > > your notebook is based on the ATI chipset, perhaps you should look at > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927 > > > > Do either of these ring a bell with anyone? > > Ok, what doesn't show in the bug 3341 is that I kept digging with Andy > Kleen and Andy came up with an implementation that doesn't use the PIT > at all, just using the ACPI timer. > > You need to run a 2.6.16 Linux kernel and pass the options "apicpmtimer" > at boot time. It works well, but we hit another bug, in that there is no > ticking at all on these buggy laptops if you stop the PIT timer. The > systems seems to hang until the user generates an event (by pressing a > key for example). You can boot the system safely by keeping a key > pressed (like shift for example). Not very handy, but it's a good > improvement over the previous problems with timer. > > If you are using an older version of the kernel (2.6.12 to 2.6.15); you > may also want try one of my patches listed here: > > http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/r3000 > > I'm curious to learn if they help on ATI too. > > Cheers, > Olivier. > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
