Distribution: Mandriva 2007 Hardware Environment: Toshiba Satellite A100-510 Software Environment: KDE 3.5.4 Problem Description: My clock runs way to fast, this means that in every "normal" minute, my system clock lets a few minutes pass by. I have used the following boot options to try to solve this issue: - noapictimer - no_timer_check - notsc The first one ("noapictimer") seems to solve it. Booting with "noapic" also solves the problem. However, this intrduces a new problem, by booting with one of these options my wired NIC (Realtek RTL8139) does not work anymore.
does it get better with "acpi=off"?
If I use "acpi=off" my NIC (Realtek RTL8139) does not work anymore.
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 00:18 -0800, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > ------- Additional Comments From jborsje@xs4all.nl 2007-03-08 00:18 ------- > If I use "acpi=off" my NIC (Realtek RTL8139) does not work anymore. Can you check the clock nevertheless ? tglx
Yes "acpi=off" fixes the problem with the clock.
Was there a version of the kernel that did not exhibit this behavior? Also are you running the latest version of your system's BIOS?
For both the default and the "acpi=off" case, please attach the complete dmesg and paste the /proc/interrupts
[quote]Was there a version of the kernel that did not exhibit this behavior?[/quote] Not that I know of. [quote]Also are you running the latest version of your system's BIOS?[/quote]I believe I am, I am not able to find a newer version. [quote]For both the default and the "acpi=off" case, please attach the complete dmesg and paste the /proc/interrupts[/quote] I will provide this information within the next few days.
Jethro?
I am so sorry, you are right, I still have to provide the information. I will start collecting it right away.
Does this happen with a more recent kernel as well ?
Created attachment 11662 [details] A zip file of the requested output for 2.6.17-11mdv This zip file contains the requested output. I apologize for taking so long. Can you let me know if it helps? If you need any more information please do not hesitate to ask. ================================================================== NOTE: apic and lapic where always on ================================================================== DEFAULT CASE: - no extra boot options - acpi = on - nic works fine - clock is too fast ================================================================== ACPI=OFF CASE: - no extra boot options - acpi = off - nic does not work - clock works fine - no GUI anymore when booting normally with this configuration (from lilo.conf): [quote] default="linux" boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us-intl.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw compact prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent acpi=ht" vga=788 [/quote] I managed to boot into the failsafe mode: [quote] image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe resume=/dev/sda7" [/quote] This placed me on the command line as root. I could then run "startx" (as root). Which resulted in a proper KDE session. In this session the NIC was not working. ================================================================== WORKING CASE: - extra boot options: "noapictimer irqpoll" - acpi = on - nic works fine - clock works fine
I forgot to say I created the output with 2.6.17-11mdv. I now see that there is a kernel 2.6.17-14mdv available from the rpm sources. I will upgrade to this one and try it again.
Created attachment 11670 [details] A zip file of the requested output for 2.6.17-14mdv Here is the requested output with kernel 2.6.17-14mdv. ========================================== NOTE: apic and lapic are always on ========================================== DEFAULT CASE: - no extra boot options - acpi=on - nic works fine - clock too fast - USB did not work (it chrashed in 30 seconds) ========================================== ACPI=OFF CASE: - no extra boot options - acpi=off - nic does not work - clock too fast - I did not experience a USB crash - I had the same GUI problems as with 2.6.17-10mdv ========================================== WORKING CASE: - extra boot options: "noapictimer irqpoll" - acpi = on - nic works fine - clock works fine ========================================== So overall the new kernel introduced a USB problem, and also made the clock going to fast when booting with acpi=off. In 2.6.17-10mdv at least the clock worked when booting with acpi=off (and I also did not experience the USB problem).
Any progress with this so far? Jethro, how does this work with newer kernels? Thanks.
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