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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com
Subject:   Re: 13 months of user time? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980821094222.13215B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <938.903694069@critter.freebsd.dk>

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we get it all the time and our bios is not APM capable, nor is our 486DX4
CPU and custom motherboard. (If you don't believe me I can show you
the BIOS sources :-). (well maybe not but you get the drift)

julian




On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <199808210241.CAA05733@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
> >> 
> >> >[...] the machine I was having problems with was 
> >> >running apm, so it used the i8254 timecounter rather than the tsc 
> >> >counter.
> >> 
> >> Ahh... I bet that is it:  APM sucks.
> >> 
> >> Try to disable APM and see if you can reproduce it, I'll bet you
> >> my collection of genuine 11 row punched cards that you can't.
> >
> >We've already had a respondent indicate that they are seeing the 
> >symptoms on non-APM systems.
> 
> I didn't see that, and I doubt it until the repondent double-checks
> his bios settings...
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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