On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:45:33 EDT, Paul Davis said: > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 09:21 -0500, Michael Kahn wrote: > > A few months ago, I bought an HP Athlon PC and installed SuSE 9.2. > > The system clock took off at warp speed (about three times normal > > speed). When I emailed SuSE, they told me that the BIOS does not > > provide a solid real-time clock interrupt. (One side-effect of the > > warp speed system clock was I could not â??double clickâ?? on anything.) > > They felt that they may have a fix for this problem in SUSE 10.0. It > > may be that the Athlon clock fix in SUSE 10.0 is what is hindering > > your GTK performance. I really hope this isnâ??t your problem. > > it sounds quite likely that you have been the victim of some slightly > uninformed customer support. was this a dual core Athlon? No, the "turbo clock ticks" problem is a very real issue on certain Athlon motherboards. There's been several long threads about it on the linux-kernel mailing list, and I believe it's fixed in 2.6.16 or 2.6.17 or so (although I'd have to go back and check, I wasn't paying much attention because I don't have an Athlon). SUSE may well have backported the fix into whatever kernel they're shipping with 10.0. And a screaming clock *can* bork double-clicks - imagine where you need to get in 2 clicks in under 250 milliseconds, but the system ticks off what it thinks is 250ms in only 75ms. And your mouse won't double-click faster than 80ms. ;)
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