From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 8 7:51:56 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 E08D337B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 07:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2198843E3B for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 07:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g88AGQUc000433; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:16:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock runs too fast In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Sep 2002 23:19:52 EDT." <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 12:16:26 +0200 Message-ID: <432.1031480186@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com>, Craig Rodrigues writes: >I reset my timecounter: >sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > >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? Put it in /etc/rc.early: sysctl kern.timecounterhardware=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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message