Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:49:33 -0400 From: Bob Wright <bwrig@zdgt.com> To: Daniel Rock <D.Rock@t-online.de>, 'Kyle Butt' <kylebutt@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Clock runs too fast Message-ID: <F28DF05657ADD211B6140008C73354C152EAFF@ZELTD1>
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Setup a cron job to perform this operation for you, connecting to your fav NTP server... Simple yet it works :) > ---------- > From: Kyle Butt > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:40 AM > To: Daniel Rock > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Clock runs too fast > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 02:44:40PM +0200, Daniel Rock wrote: > > Craig Rodrigues schrieb: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >I have been having this problem with -current for the past 2 weeks now > > >(I am new to -current and just started using it 2 weeks ago). > > >I just did a cvsup and rebuilt the kernel and rebuilt the world. > > > > > >My clock seems to be running too fast, and I keep resetting it > > >with ntpdate. > > > > > >[...] > > > > > >Now the clock seems to run at a more reasonable rate. > > > > > >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? > > > > > I had similar problems with a Gigabyte GA-5AX (also with ALi Aladdin V > > chipset). Without setting > > debug.acpi.disable = "timer" > > the clock runs twice as fast as it should be. This problem seems to be > > introduced in the ACPI update around July 2001. I didn't find any > > solution other than disabling ACPI timecounter. > > That setting disappeared a while ago. I found another solution to the > twice as fast problem. > > I doubled machdep.acpi_timer_freq in /etc/sysctl.conf > I started by halving that, but that made my clock go 4x. Yikes. So I > doubled > it. If anyone knows how to set this at boot, please tell me. > > machdep.acpi_timer_freq=7159090 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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