Okay, I installed linux on my laptop and everything runs fast! Everything; the clock, repeat rates, animations, whatever. I think it has something to do with he scaleable laptop cpu (its a turion).

How do i fix this? A real fix, not just something telling me to use a ntp server, or changing my repeat rates. There is something going on here.

Thanks

Okay, another note: I have come to the conclusion that the thing is running almost 2x as fast as it should. after running for about an 2 hours, the system clock is way ahead of the hardware clock. i dont know whats causing this...

Could it have something to do with your voltage/clock speed settings in BIOS? Just a guess...

well, i have figured out that my cpu clock is running at 1.6 ghz, the full clock. even when it scales down to 800 mhz though i have the exact same problem. (my system clock runs 2x too fast)

I just posted this to answer what sounds like the same question but on the Fedora mailing list.

andy AT armcat.com wrote:

> On Saturday 20 August 2005 20:45, Johan Lozano wrote:
>
>>> Suddenly I noticed that the clock didn't show the right time on the
>>> Has anybody experienced this phenomenal too or is it just on my laptop?
>>
>
> I also have this on a Athlon 64 X2 DFI motherboard with the FC4 x86_64 SMP kernel. Time does not
> seem to pass at double speed here but it does pass faster than realtime. Sometimes it only gains an hour
> or so overnight.
>
> I wondered if it was to do with running XP in vmware, I didn't look too closely at it yet.
>
> -Andy
>
>
> !DSPAM:4307998470981632221273!
>
Known problem with certain chipsets for the AMD 64 bit CPUs. Try adding:

no_timer_check=0

to your kernel boot parameters. There is an open kernel bug for this problem.

Cheers,
Dave

thanks! it worked!

Hey,
I have an AMD64 3500 running. I'm running mandriva 2006 RC1. I have tried the no_timer_check=0 and the noapic parameters. The noapic works but it causes significant problems with the ethernet connection. I'd rather not pass that parameter. Do you know of any other hacks?

Thanks

no_timer_check=0 works great for me...

Unfortunately, nothing of this works for me.
Does anyone know whether this has been fixed in later versions of kernel, like 2.6.12+?

I browsed the net a lot, I tried several things like acpi=off (doesn't come up), noapic (doesn't come up, too), acpi_skip_timer_override (nothing happens) etc

The only thing I haven't tried was to alter the kernel source and re-compile it and re-install. Does enyone know how to fix this problem this way?

not often we hear people complaining about how their computer runs too fast :P j/k

But you will feel frustrated if you type "ls" but it gives you "lssssssss", if you are in year 2005 the clock shows 2006

wait seriously!? so this processor its new type... sound new :P? and still havent fixed it?
if were that serious i would install windows or something until a kernel update or something... unless it is do-able

Hey guys, I'm new to linux and have the same problem with FC4 and an AMD64 chip. Where exactly is the kernal boot file where I can add that parameter? thanks.

kernel boot file is /boot/grub/grub.conf, add no_timer_check=0 at the end of "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet "

Try adding "acpi=noirq noapic" to you kernel boot parameter without the quotes.

I am runnning debian unstable on a 64-bit semperon laptop. adding noapic will fix the clock but it messes up everything else adding acpi=noirq before the noapic fixes both.

I have tried adding no_timer_check to the boot parameter and it did not work, but I will try the no_timer_check=0 tonite and se what happens.