Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:44:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com Subject: Re: 13 months of user time? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980821094222.13215B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <938.903694069@critter.freebsd.dk>
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we get it all the time and our bios is not APM capable, nor is our 486DX4 CPU and custom motherboard. (If you don't believe me I can show you the BIOS sources :-). (well maybe not but you get the drift) julian On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199808210241.CAA05733@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> > >> >[...] the machine I was having problems with was > >> >running apm, so it used the i8254 timecounter rather than the tsc > >> >counter. > >> > >> Ahh... I bet that is it: APM sucks. > >> > >> Try to disable APM and see if you can reproduce it, I'll bet you > >> my collection of genuine 11 row punched cards that you can't. > > > >We've already had a respondent indicate that they are seeing the > >symptoms on non-APM systems. > > I didn't see that, and I doubt it until the repondent double-checks > his bios settings... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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