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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:34:38 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: Dell Latitude 610 CPU clock rate degrading (debug info included)
Message-ID:  <40FEB73E.7020102@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040721171853.GB45921@pun.isi.edu>
References:  <20040720165016.GA35412@pun.isi.edu> <40FD6BEB.4060102@root.org> <20040721171853.GB45921@pun.isi.edu>

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Ted Faber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:00:59PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Ted Faber wrote:
>>>I tried booting without ACPI, but my time of day clock ran consistenty
>>>slow - which might mean that the same degredation was occurring without
>>>the OS readjusting for it.  In any case it wasn't clear that no ACPI
>>>helped.
>>
>>Same problem.  What timecounter are you using?  Switching away from TSC 
>>would help this.
> 
> With ACPI there's no clock skew problem, so that's how I've been
> running.  Just for my information, how might I switch timecounters?  (It
> sounds like it won't solve the problem to switch away from ACPI, but I'm
> curious).

When running without ACPI, you should use the i8254 timecounter.  Switch 
it with this command (or put it in /etc/sysctl.conf):

sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254"

-- 
-Nate



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