Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:10:09 +0000 From: Martin Smith <stable-list@rakupottery.org.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The "calcru: negative...." messages. Message-ID: <419291C1.3040108@rakupottery.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041110031559.66162.qmail@web20526.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041110031559.66162.qmail@web20526.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dean Patterson wrote: > Just to edify all I was getting constant "calcru: > negative...." messages and I isolated it to ACPI. To > remedy this I put an entry in the device.hints file to > disable ACPI. Now to edify me; Is this a good > aproach? Any issues by not having ACPI loaded? Thank > you all and to all a good night! > > Dean. > Well, as a brief example, on my old Asus P5A, a worthy mobo I might add, with ACPI enabled the system time races forward at a rate totally unrelated to that generally accepted, it becomes tomorrow before tea time. I have found it most useful to leave it disabled, I dont think I am losing anything valuable. All the best -- Martin Smith
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