Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:51:59 -0600 From: Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <3E3055EF.8010808@137.org> References: <XFMail.20030123141818.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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That fixed it. Thanks a bunch. :) -Patrick John Baldwin wrote: > On 23-Jan-2003 Patrick Hartling wrote: > >>I just updated a 4.7-STABLE system (last rebuilt using sources from >>Jan 7, 2003) to 5.0-RELEASE, and now the system clock is going nuts. >>I had the same problem when I updated from 3-STABLE to 4-STABLE quite >>a while back. To solve the problem then, I added the following to my >>kernel configuration file: >> >> device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 >> >>For my 5.0 kernel configuration, I have: >> >> device apm >> >>In /boot/device.hints, I have: >> >> hint.apm.0.disabled="1" >> hint.apm.0.flags="0x20" >> >>Unfortunately, this isn't working. Is there something different I need >>to do for 5.0? Looking in NOTES for information about APM, I see a >>reference to a sysctl variable kern.timecounter.method, but that doesn't >>seem to be a valid oid in 5.0. I don't think this system (a cheap, old >>Cyrix MediaGX-based computer) supports ACPI. At the very least, ACPI >>isn't enabled by default at boot time as it is on my Athlon system. > > > The sysctl is now kern.timecounter.hardware. For example: > > >>sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware > > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe > > If it is currently set to 'tsc', try changing it to 'i8254' and see if > it works better. If so, you can stick that in /etc/sysctl.conf. > -- Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, VRAC patrick@137.org | 2274 Howe Hall Room 2624 PGP: http://www.137.org/patrick/pgp.txt | T: +1.515.294.4916 http://www.137.org/patrick/ | http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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