On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:01:28 -0500
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:45:38AM -0700, Tannon Weber wrote:
> > I know that this is an old problem, but I was wondering if anyone has
> > a solution for the clock speed problems (clock running 2+ times too
> > fast) on Athlon 64/ATI hardware. I'm actually running 32 bit at the
> > moment, but it appears that only 64 bit capable hardware is having
> > this problem.
>
> No my athlon XP on nforce2 chipset ran about 20% fast for a long time.
> 2.6.15 kernel seems to have now fixed it. The ATI chipsets have been
> known to run at double speed with many 2.6 kernels.
Hmm. This brings up two questions for me. First is, how do I tell if the
cpu is being run too fast? Secondly, is this really a problem?
I recall something about it being run at 2x the first time I booted it; but
I don't recall which kernel that was. My cpu is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64
Processor 3800+, with /proc/cpuinfo listing the cpu MHz at 2411.746. the
board is identified by dmesg as an nvidia board, with an nforce3 chipset also
listed. My kernel is 2.6.12-1.
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David L. Johnson
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_`\(,_ | certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
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