nForce4 and Ubuntu

[ulrich steffens]

Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2005, 19:04 +0100 schrieb Jean-Eric Cuendet:
>  > I just did a little upgrade.
>  >
>  > I got an AMD64 Dual Core 3800+ on a Gigabyte A8N-SLI (nForce4) board
>  > and it too works fantastic....
>  >
>  > except:  the kernel has a timer issue.  (apparenly fixed in 2.6.14+,
>  > but that is beyond breezy).  Have you experienced any 'fast clock'
>  > issues yet?
> 
> I had no issues. Which kind of timer? Disk? CPU?
> And what is "fast clock"?
> 
i think he means that bug that mostly amd users suffer:

ulrich at rockarolla:~$ uptime
 14:13:38 up 1 day, 16:06,  3 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.24, 0.31

ulrich at rockarolla:~$ date
Fr Nov 25 14:14:10 CET 2005

ulrich at rockarolla:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ntpdate start
Password:
 * Synchronizing clock to ntp.ubuntulinux.org...                 [ ok ]

ulrich at rockarolla:~$ date
Fr Nov 25 13:57:13 CET 2005

i definetly think he meant this bug :)

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ulrich steffens
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