From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 15: 7:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2F0014DFC for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nephrose@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 21316 invoked by uid 0); 23 Aug 1999 22:07:09 -0000 Received: from 130-149-145-123.dialup.cs.tu-berlin.de (HELO Italien) (130.149.145.123) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 23 Aug 1999 22:07:09 -0000 Message-ID: <023301beedb3$db157ce0$72919582@clayoberschule.de> Reply-To: "Marco Wertejuk" From: "Marco Wertejuk" To: "Doug" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Timer problems Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:50:47 +0200 Organization: Clay Oberschule Berlin X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > I'm using FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE and have following | > problem : The clock from FreeBSD doesn't work correctly. | > | > One _reallife_ minute equals about 0.215307 seconds !! | > During start-up I see following numbers concerning the | > time. | > "Timecounter 'i8254' frequency 1193182 Hz" and | > "Timecounter 'TSC' frequency 99545827 Hz" ? | > | > I'm a little bit angry about this problem. | > What other informations should I also provide to help | > resolving this problem ? | | Be nice to know your hardware specs, especially motherboard, ram, | cpu. Also, are you overclocking your cpu? If so, try setting everything to | spec and try again. Not all motherboard/cpu combos support overclocking. I have an Elitegroup [I'm not sure if Elitegroup is the manufacturer] TR5510 Rev:1.1B Mainboard with an AMD K5-100 and 16 MB Ram, this CPU isn't overclocked. Theres no Cache available and just a graphics card [S3 Virge] and a keyboard plugged in [this is my minimal test configuration] The mainboard uses Intels 430FX Chipset. 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]. Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message