From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 24 9:51:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695C215A1A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA28679; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:57:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199908241557.LAA28679@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Marco Wertejuk" Cc: Subject: Clock is to slow In-Reply-To: <006101beee25$4836bca0$5c919582@clayoberschule.de> References: <006101beee25$4836bca0$5c919582@clayoberschule.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > I discovered a very interesting thing: When my system is busy the time works > correctly. For example: I set the screensaver activation time to one second. > If the system is idle it takes more than 6 minutes until the screensaver > turns on. If I open a huge file for example "ee /kernel" the screensaver > turns on during the load process [if it takes more than 1 second]. Turn off power management in your BIOS. It interferes with proper timekeeping. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message