[BUG] Clock always faster
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Fri May 5 19:05:29 UTC 2006
Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> It could be a bug in the BIOS. I recently dealt with some AMD64 X2 boxes
> (from Alienware) that had a really big issue similar to this because of the
> way the BIOS was configuring (or not properly configuring) the APIC. If we
> ran an SMP kernel on those boxes under those conditions, the delay loop was
> seriously miscalibrated and we would see the clock stall & jump. It also
> made it extremely difficult to type as the briefest of touches to a key would
> cause anywhere from 2-20 keypresses to register, even after we had turned the
> keyboard repeat rates all the way down.
>
>
>
Sounds familiar:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223
-Andy
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