Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:56:42 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: sjh@zorak.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock running double time Message-ID: <20030315165642.GA2946@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu> <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:51:09PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:14:51PM -0800, sjh@zorak.net wrote: > > Has anyone ever seen this? My clock is running double time, that is, > > each second it advances two seconds. Needless to say, ntpd can't sync > > up with any servers. > > You almost certainly have a motherboard with bad ACPI (probably > for with a K6 processor). Try adding: > > kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC The correct line to add to /etc/sysctl.conf is: kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC > > to /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooting. This has been reported several > times now, I wonder if we should add it to the FAQ? > > David. -- Craig Rodrigues http://home.attbi.com/~rodrigc 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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