Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264978AbTFCMZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:25:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264979AbTFCMZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:25:54 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:57092 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264978AbTFCMZl (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:25:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3EDC96EA.5020906@xss.co.at> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:39:06 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Haumer CC: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: system clock speed too high? References: <3EDBA83B.5050406@xss.co.at> <1054582573.7494.51.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3EDC7052.9060109@xss.co.at> <3EDC8DC0.7090009@xss.co.at> In-Reply-To: <3EDC8DC0.7090009@xss.co.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1827 Lines: 61 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Andreas Haumer wrote: [...] > *) Hyperthreading "disabled" > *) MPS 1.4 Support "disabled" > *) BIOS Update "disabled" > *) Plug & Play "yes" (this makes it even worse: linux crashes > eventually as it gets confused by IRQ setting) > I've found it: It's BIOS setting "USB legacy support", which I had on "Auto" (default setting). As soon as I disable "USB legacy support", system time is now in sync with wall clock time! root@setup:~ {508} $ ntpdate ntp.xss.co.at; sleep 60; ntpdate ntp.xss.co.at 3 Jun 14:35:32 ntpdate[1141]: adjust time server 194.152.162.17 offset 0.005909 sec 3 Jun 14:36:32 ntpdate[1146]: adjust time server 194.152.162.17 offset -0.002158 sec Uaaahhhhhhhh!!!!! Linux also now reports an interesting error on bootup, which isn't there when booting with "USB legacy support=Auto" [...] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC [...] (This is 2.4.21-rc6-ac1 booting with "acpi=off") What the hell does USB legacy support have to do with all this??? This is weird! - - andreas - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+3JbkxJmyeGcXPhERAmzLAJ48RMa7o6Zn0Ko6YxFn4y5UVeGl+wCgwQwN DSjZtxe4QDEL8I812fz2h1U= =8zBV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/