From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmcFH-0007Nw-K4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:25:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBEJNYpd029432; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:23:34 GMT Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBEJIqUR023135 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:18:53 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.8] (12-217-65-76.client.mchsi.com[12.217.65.76]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20051214191852m9200amgine>; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:18:52 +0000 From: Noah J Norris To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clock problems software clock 20x fast Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:13:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200512141130.18846.preludelinux@mchsi.com> <7573e9640512140939y2ceedb36occ219469df55719d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640512140939y2ceedb36occ219469df55719d@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512141413.57316.preludelinux@mchsi.com> X-Archives-Salt: 09aa0df2-ef3a-4e36-853e-b68f59ab5da4 X-Archives-Hash: 6fff7478a7db112846086369f67cd32f On Wednesday 14 December 2005 05:39 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/14/05, Noah J Norris wrote: > > my hardware clock stays correct but the software clock is like going 20x > > fast im on a laptop and using noapic the problem goes away but leads to > > other problems like network problems happing like errors with internal > > ethernet card and ndiswrapper stops working . the processer is amd64 > > running as x86 (32bit mode) i get apic errors and lost tick errors . if > > i leave this on for a couple hours it becomes days ahead can anyone shead > > some light on this ? kernel being used is 2.6.14-r2 i believe > > A couple of things to investigate: > > 1. Make sure that the first line of /etc/adjtime contains very small > values. In fact, you might just want to replace the first line with > "0.0 0 0.0". i tried changeing this is this for the hardware clock drift ? i dont have any problem with the hardware clock its the software clock thats fast > > 2. Take a look at the clock= settings in > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Maybe you need > clock=pit. > > -Richard looking in this file saw some other options that may help the problem. i have an ati chipset (newer laptop chipset) ouput of lspci below 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480/RS482/RX480/RX482) Chipset - Host bridge (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port 0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a38 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600] 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10) 0000:03:05.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 0000:03:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 0000:03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) some options i saw in that file that i may try acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs (in particular on some ATI chipsets). The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. -- life is linux linux is life -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list