Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:51:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net> To: Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System clock out of control Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231845420.83450-100000@titanic.medinet.si> In-Reply-To: <20001023162441.194C55E0C@tomservo.vrac.iastate.edu>
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> That fixed it. Thanks, Blaz! > > So now I have to wonder why this fixed the problem? Is this a sign of > some other problem, or is it just something that is an issue with > non-Intel i386 hardware? I believe the apm code switches the whole system to use some other clock source. In my case, it was an old AMD K5 box, on which the clock was running *extermely slow* (like one second every minute). It was originally running Linux and it exhibited the same problem under Linux. We thought it was purely broken hardware or a broken BIOS, I tried upgrading to the latest BIOS - still no go. Later I tried to install FreeBSD on it nevertheless and it worked - but as soon as I installed a custom kernel it failed. Well, now with "device apm" the machine is happily humming along and you wouldn't be reading this message if it wasn't working (the box is now our company firewall, running FreeBSD 4.1.1). Back to your question, somebody more familiar with the apm code might give you the answer. Or somebody more familiar with the system clocks on FreeBSD, maybe phk@freebsd.org? I'm not sure if he's reading this list, though. Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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