Guest twrock Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my IBM 1452i laptop (dual boot with Win98). I'm having a lot of fun with it so far, mostly just playing with Linux to see how realistic it is for me (learning curve fears). My problem is that the system clock is running at twice the speed of real time. And to top it all off, the hardware clock gets reset by the system on logout. So my clock is perpetually off. I found some mention of this problem in my searching, but I can not figure out how to implement a solution. Can anyone explain to a complete newbie how to fix this one? BTW, it has a 366 mhz Celeron processor, which I gather is the "problem." If worse comes to worst, I'll reinstall with the 2.4 kernel instead, but I'd really like to solve it with a command or patch or something (and I have no idea yet how to install a patch even if I have one). Thanks, Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Try clock=tsc. When you see the lilo boot screen, press f1 and type linux clock=tsc. Good luck http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?o...8892&forum=1&18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest twrock Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Try clock=tsc. When you see the lilo boot screen, press f1 and type linux clock=tsc. Good luck http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?o...8892&forum=1&18 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks. I'll give it a shot. Will I need to do that on every boot, or does lilo store that automatically? (BTW, I did notice the booting 2.4 was an option in lilo already, so that is what I am doing at the moment.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest twrock Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Try clock=tsc. When you see the lilo boot screen, press f1 and type linux clock=tsc. Good luck http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?o...8892&forum=1&18 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, yes it was successful. And I followed your link to the discussion and figured out how to add it to lilo "permanently" for both "linux" and the "2.6.3-7" boot options. Thanks again. (For future newbie reference, here is what you need to do from within KDE: Click Start:System:Configuration:Configure your computer Click on Boot then Boot loader I have chosen "LILO with graphical menu" from the pull down menu; whatever. Click Next to go to the second screen of options Choose "linux (/boot/vmlinuz)" and click on Modify At the end of the Append line, add a space and type "clock=tsc" without the quotes Click OK Modify 263-7 if you choose to as well Click Finish Exit the Control Center You're done; reboot) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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