From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 31 0:58:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A68437B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6V80Jd01727; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107310800.f6V80Jd01727@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Daniel Rock Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:28:29 +0200." <3B65993D.5243DAD@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:00:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > > - What power management hardware your system has: look at the output of > > pciconf -lv for a "power management controller", eg: > > > This machine has no separate controller. Attached is the complete output > of "pciconf -lv" That's OK; I can probably safely assume it's the M1533 device. > > - which timecounter is in use on your system, eg: > > > > mass# sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware > > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI > > During the Off/2 errors this variable contained "ACPI" Ok, so far so good. > > - whether you are seeing any "*time went backwards" console messages. > > Tons of, even with negative CPU-Usage times. Ok, I think we have the enemy in sight. Can you please say: set debug.acpi.timer_test="yes" at the loader prompt and boot? Ideally, you'll get a message "timer is not monotonic", followed by some numbers. If this is the case, then I need to get "smarter" with the ACPI timer probe. Thanks! -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message