Re: [gentoo-amd64] Clock skew

[Mark Haney]

Tony Johnson wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:58, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 18 October 2005 23:14, Jonathan Resino wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have an asus A8N-SLI premium board and cannot seem to get my clock
>>>to stop skewing, it gains an hour almost every hour.  It has gotten to
>>>be quite irritating, and reading over the forums I'm not sure if there
>>>is a definite fix.  Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
Had this problem when I first got this laptop running FC4, it's a known 
kernel bug and the only real way I know to make it go away is to use 
no-timer-check in the kernel boot parameters.

>>Are you running a dual core CPU? If so I had this issue and it is due to
>>TSC sync. Emerge gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r4 and it has a patch that fixes
>>this issue.
>>
>>
>
>Hmmm.. I have the same issue, and this upgrade to 2.6.13-r4 did not appear to
>fix the problem. My clock still gains many seconds per minute.  Of course, if
>I rebuild the same kernel without SMP it works like a charm.
>
>An additional problem is in my XP vmware... with SMP, the "keeyyyboooaaarrrd"
>is crazy, and any media files (.wmv, .ram, etc) run at x4 speed. Most
>annoying.
>
>

I noticed this as well, the only problem is, the issue seems to be with 
XP.  I have had nothing but trouble out of it when running on Dual Core 
CPUs.  Is the XP version you are using the 32bit?  or 64bit?  I bet it's 
the former based on the (x4) in the post, as the 64bit version would 
probably sound only twice as fast.  Granted I'm only guessing.

>I have:
>AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
>2Gb Geil RAM
>
>Regards
>Tony Johnson
>
>


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