Bugzilla – Bug 146516
System clock is runing too fast
Last modified: 2006-02-10 12:55:13 UTC
I have just installed SUSE 10.1 Beta 1 on my AMD Turion 64 notebook (HP Compaq nx6125) and I have noticed that the system is extremely slow. The next thing I noticed right away is that the clock is runing two fast. About two times as fast as it should. Maybe these two things are related. I also have Mandriva Linux 2006 installed on the same system and I had Kubutu 6.04 Beta installed and in both of those the clock was runnig just fine.
This should be gone away with Beta2. I've had no such problems on the same hardware with Beta2. Please confirm. For Beta1, use "noapic" as a boot option to work around the problem.
Well I found some other boot option using Google that also helped me with Beta1: disable_timer_pin_1 What is the difference from noapic? Anyways, currently I'm in the middle of installation of Beta2 from the very beginning and I will report bak how it goes.
As the installation process is still quite a bit sluggish I checked out the clock using date command during package installation. And it still runs two times as fast as it should. I'll wait untill the installation is complete and I'll see how it is in the fully installed system.
Unfortunately I have to report that even with beta 2 the problem remains. System clock is still running twice as fast even after installation is complete and computer rebooted.
Please remember to always change the bug report back to ASSIGNED as soon as you added the needed information - as long as you don't, the developers won't see it on their "my bugs" page. BTW, what's the content of /etc/adjtime on your system?
My /etc/adjtime is: 0.000000 1138657294 0.000000 1138657294 LOCAL This is now with running using disable_timer_pin_1 kernel option. Should I remove this option and report back again?
I just finished installing beta 3. I checked the clock during installation and it was runing with correct speed. It also runs fine so far in the desktop even without any additional boot kernel options. The only problem that remains despite all of this is that the desktop feels extremely slow. Apps are also very slow to load. I'll try with disable_timer_pin_1 and noapic kernel options to see if it helps.
With noapic option it seams to work fine. But when I try disable_timer_pin_1, which also worked just fine before, the kernel locks during boot. If I press a key I get the message I will attach in a photo.
Created attachment 66471 [details] Photo of kernel message
Oh and I forgot to mention. With disable_timer_pin_1 if I press any key when the booting stops I get these messages several times at several points of boot up but when the desktop finally comes up all also seams to work just fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145747 ***