[ltp] Too fast clock on T40 with 2.6.7

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:37:47 +0200


On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 15:35:17 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 14:09:34 +0100, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I run 2.6.7 on my T40 I see the clock run forwards by about 60
> > minutes when only about 10 minutes of real time has passed. I can
> > resync the time using ntp, but it keeps on flying forwards. In
> > 2.4.26 the clock is fine.
> 
> This has nothing todo with your ThinkPad. It seems that some changes
> in 2.6.7 screwed up the system clock on certain hardware, including
> my Athlon XP based desktop. I tried some fixes grabbed from the LKML,
> without success, so I reverted to 2.6.6. Maybe you have more luck
> with 2.6.8-rc2 or the 2.6.7-mm patch.

I tried 2.4.7-mm7 on my desktop computer and the clock has the correct
now, just FYI.

Regards,
Tino