Monday, June 9, 2008

Clock Speed-Up After Kernel Update

My Kubuntu desktop suddenly got a clock speed-up after I upgraded my Kernel to 2.6.24-19 -- the mouse pointer blinked twice as fast and video and audio started playing with 2x speed by default! I found out that it is probably because I am running a 32bit system on AMD64 dual core. I then found a nice hack on the grub entries to correct the speed-up:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75281
I used the "noapic acpi=off" option and now things are fine.

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