Bug#354995: amd64-k8-smp kernel makes clock run fast
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:48:23AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> I have this problem, and it is not caaauused by the ATI timer bug. I don't
> have an ATI chipset, and none of the suggesssted fixes for the ATI timer
> bug (booting with disable_timer_pin_1, noapic, acpi=off, notsc, etc.) has
> any effect.
Did you upgrade your BIOS? This completely solved the problem for me on a
Gigabyte K8NF9 Ultra board, nivida chips. ATI is only in the AGP slot.
disable_timer_pin_1 now actually prevents the machine from booting, so I had
to remove that again, no special boot options are needed and it works great.
Christian
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