From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 28 14:00:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18817 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18809; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id WAA04723; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:55:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00974; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:54:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199811282154.WAA00974@semyam.dinoco.de> To: Ilya Orehov cc: Brian Feldman , phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: kern_clock.c (was: video mode switching has gone south) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Nov 1998 21:13:07 +0300." <19981128211307.A16994@cnetworks.net> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:54:20 +0100 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm another one who can report somewhat new behaviour : > > 1. X now starts up more slowly, with flicker. I think for me that's the case, too but is hard to judge. > 2. usleep(s), where s=1, 10, 100, 10000 sleeps for about 1 second, > regardless of argument. That probably explains the strange behavior of olvwm I saw. When I tried to deiconify xconsole it shows the usual animation but with the new kernel it did it in slow motion. Removing 1.85 from kern_clock.c and installing another kernel cured that. I didn't try you attached patch, though. The shortened down dmesg for a kernel with 1.84 is this: (BTW: Where the hell does the "config> quit" come from???) Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sat Nov 28 22:41:03 CET 1998 seggers@semyam.dinoco.de:/usr2/FreeBSD/src/sys/compile/SEMYAM Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 99474053 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5 Features=0x1bf real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) config> quit avail memory = 46751744 (45656K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf023a000. [...] Preloaded elf module "ipfw.ko" at 0xf023a27c. Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x02 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: rev 0x02 on pci0.7.1 vga0: rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0 ncr0: rev 0x03 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0 Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> [sio0/sio1/sio2] [ppc/ppc0/nlpt0/plip0] [ppc/ppc1/nlpt1/plip1] [fdc0/fd0] [wdc0/wd0/wdc1/wd2] npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, logging limited to 100 packets/entry ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle changing root device to wd0s1a [cd0] [da0] Start pid=2 Start pid=3 Start pid=4 Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message