From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 8 5:55:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625FE37B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 05:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FC443E4A for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 05:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from D.Rock@t-online.de) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17o1b7-0006Er-05; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 14:55:29 +0200 Received: from dialin.t-online.de (340029380333-0001@[80.128.214.32]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17o1ax-10dZiaC; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:55:19 +0200 Received: from t-online.de (doom [172.23.7.254]) by dialin.t-online.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6/Rock) with ESMTP id g88Cidv00192; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:44:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D7B4638.1060007@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 14:44:40 +0200 From: Daniel Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock runs too fast References: <20020907231952.A5525@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 340029380333-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Craig Rodrigues schrieb: >Hi, > >I have been having this problem with -current for the past 2 weeks now >(I am new to -current and just started using it 2 weeks ago). >I just did a cvsup and rebuilt the kernel and rebuilt the world. > >My clock seems to be running too fast, and I keep resetting it >with ntpdate. > >[...] > >Now the clock seems to run at a more reasonable rate. > >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? > I had similar problems with a Gigabyte GA-5AX (also with ALi Aladdin V chipset). Without setting debug.acpi.disable = "timer" the clock runs twice as fast as it should be. This problem seems to be introduced in the ACPI update around July 2001. I didn't find any solution other than disabling ACPI timecounter. Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message