1.8.1-RELEASE - clock runs fast on mainboard ASUS P5A-B

[Matthew Dillon]

:After a fresh install of 1.8.1-RELEASE on a system with ASUS P5A-B
:mainboard (ALI chipset), the clock runs twice as fast as normal.
:
:Booting with ACPI disabled solved this problem.
:
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:The clock problem on some ATI chipsets was a problem in Linux some
:kernels ago too. The solution was triggered by clock=pit as bootarg if I
:remember right... maybe having a peek into Linux's code helps.

    Could you post the full dmesg output with and without ACPI enabled?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>