[Gllug] Clock running at double speed!

[Nix]

On 20 Jan 2007, John Winters uttered the following:
> The computer as a whole seems to work fine, but the clock drifts at an
> astonishing rate.  It's running Debian Sarge, with a 2.6.18 kernel and
> if I clock-watch on the desktop the clock seems to run at exactly
> twice the correct rate.  That is, every second it updates but the time
> increases by 2 seconds, like this:

This is generally an ACPI problem, if I recall. Try booting with
`acpi=off' (I think `noacpi' is a synonym for this).

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