Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:18:30 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock runs too fast Message-ID: <20020909131830.A3204@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <432.1031480186@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:16:26PM %2B0200 References: <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com> <432.1031480186@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com>, Craig Rodrigues writes: > >Is there a problem with the ACPI code or with my > >hardware (an ASUS P5A-B motherboard from about 3 or 4 years ago). > > > >How can I default to i8254 as my default timer? Is there > >something I should put in device.hints? > > Put it in /etc/rc.early: > sysctl kern.timecounterhardware=i8254 I put the following lin in /etc/sysctl.conf and it did the job: kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > I have not been able to understand in what way this board fails :-( > > Does the time run uniformly fast, ie: 7 minutes every 5, all the > time, or is it erratic ? I didn't do a very thorough analysis of the problem, but it seemed to erratic. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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