[ltp] T42 with 2.6.27.7 kernel - system clock too fast

[Dave Wood]

On (12:25 20/12/08), Audrius Kažukauskas <neobug@tornado.ktu.lt> put forth the proposition:
>On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 08:57:33 +0000, Dave Wood wrote:
>> Since I upgraded to Slackware 12.2 with a 2.6.27.7 kernel I'm finding the
>> system clock gains rougthly 2 minutes every 10 minutes or so. Has anyone
>> come across this before and know of a fix?
>
>I'm running ntpd, so can't confirm or deny your observations (on a side
>note, ntpq -p returned "No association ID's returned", but after ntpd
>restart everything seems fine; maybe it has something to do with rc
>scripts starting ntpd earlier than wicd network manager?  Still the
>offset was about 0.2 seconds).  I'm using vanilla 2.6.27.10 kernel with
>thinkpad-acpi (0.21-20081111) ant tp-smapi (0.40) patches.
>
>> uname -a:
>> Linux Junius 2.6.27.7 #13 PREEMPT Sat Dec 20 04:10:21 GMT 2008 i686
>> Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
>This is not a stock Slackware kernel, right?  So, something wrong with
>configuration, perhaps?

Indeed. I recompiled from scratch using a stock kernel config and it is 
fixed now. Not sure what the problem was though.

>
>-- 
>Audrius Kažukauskas



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