From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 21 10:05:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03429 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00556; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdvSd552; Fri Aug 21 16:44:45 1998 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:44:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , Brian Somers , Brian Feldman , Terry Lambert , bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com Subject: Re: 13 months of user time? In-Reply-To: <938.903694069@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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