From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 14 13:51: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from roaming.cacheboy.net (roaming.cacheboy.net [203.56.168.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2365637B479; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by roaming.cacheboy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAELoxr04292; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:50:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:50:59 +0100 From: Adrian Chadd To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current has hosed the i8254 timecounter... Message-ID: <20001114225059.B4195@roaming.cacheboy.net> References: <4113.974156204@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4113.974156204@critter>; from phk@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:56:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It seems that something recently toasted the quasi-magic i8254 timecounter > code to the point of unusability. > > On my laptop I run a ntpdate every minute, and the result looks like this: > I'm seeing something similar with -current on this laptop here. Magically, if I jiggle the mouse whilst playing an mp3, things start to skip and the clock goes *way* off way (sometimes by a few seconds in a few seconds. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support for a lifetime." -- rec.humor.funny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message