Re: strange clock behaviour on a laptop

["David Gasa Castell" <dgasacas7@hotmail.com>]

Thanks a lot for your reponses and sorry for my delay,

I just had been busy trying to understand all your information. Indeed, the 
version of the BIOS firmware, according to the data provided in HP website, 
is completely updated (Nov, 22th, 2005).

The discussion in bugzilla is a little tricky for me so I'm not an expert in 
computer science.

I also tried to enter the kernel option acpi_os_name="Microsoft Windows XP" 
and It doesn't run.

I'll be very glad for further comments ? Do you need more data ?

Thanks again,

David Gasa i Castell


> From: spamtree@comcast.net (A. P. Kennedy)
> To: ic@iancairns.org
> CC: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,        David Gasa 
> Castell <dgasacas7@hotmail.com>,        debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: strange clock behaviour on a laptop
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:20:53 -0600
>
>
> Take a look at this. This bug has been around awhile but a fix is out.
> I'm asuming that this is an ATI chipset. Would definetly try a bios
> update if one is out for your laptop.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927
>
> >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Cairns <ic@iancairns.org> writes:
>
>  Ian> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:30 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>  >> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:15:45PM +0000, David Gasa Castell
>  >> wrote: > Recently, I adquired a laptop (mod. HP Compaq nx 6125)
>  >> and I tried to > install a 32 bits Etch on it.
>  >> >
>  >> > After all, I detected an acceleration of the laptop clock, so it
>  >> counts two > seconds per one.
>  >> >
>  >> > What can I do to fix this ?
>  >> >
>  >> > Thanks in advance.
>  >>
>  >> If it has an ati chipset (I suspect it does since I think the nx
>  >> 6150 does), then try adding this to the kernel command line:
>  >>
>  >> acpi_os_name="Microsoft Windows XP"
>  >>
>  >> According to what I have read the BIOS on almost all ATI based
>  >> boards has incomplete ACPI implementation and does a crap job on
>  >> anything that isn't claiming to be windows.
>  >>
>  >> If that doesn't do it, then maybe you need to pass an option to
>  >> set which timer pin to use and/or ignore, but I don't remember
>  >> which ones off hand.
>  >>
>  >> Len Sorensen
>
>  Ian> I had clock problems on my HP Pavilion zv6004EA until I upgraded
>  Ian> the firmware (used Windows to do it, grrrr!) but since then it
>  Ian> has been well behaved.
>
>  Ian> Could I suggest a quick look at the HP web site.
>
>  Ian>     Ian.
>
>
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