>> Now, the puzzling. This is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ on an ASUS A7N8X >> deluxe ver 2.0 m/b. The symptom is that ntpd refuses to sync. Dropping AMD 3200+, -42.0.2-x86_64 kernel. My ntpd works just fine, up kernel. Discovers pit/tsc timer, and works great with no lost ticks, even with cpuspeed and idle throttling. I use external servers for ntpd. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.