From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 9 10:18:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B2937B407 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDB043E3B for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g89HIUhF003240; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:18:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g89HIU7k003239; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:18:30 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock runs too fast Message-ID: <20020909131830.A3204@attbi.com> References: <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com> <432.1031480186@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <432.1031480186@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com>, Craig Rodrigues writes: > >Is there a problem with the ACPI code or with my > >hardware (an ASUS P5A-B motherboard from about 3 or 4 years ago). > > > >How can I default to i8254 as my default timer? Is there > >something I should put in device.hints? > > Put it in /etc/rc.early: > sysctl kern.timecounterhardware=i8254 I put the following lin in /etc/sysctl.conf and it did the job: kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > I have not been able to understand in what way this board fails :-( > > Does the time run uniformly fast, ie: 7 minutes every 5, all the > time, or is it erratic ? I didn't do a very thorough analysis of the problem, but it seemed to erratic. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message