Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:50:47 +0200 From: "Marco Wertejuk" <nephrose@gmx.net> To: "Doug" <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Timer problems Message-ID: <023301beedb3$db157ce0$72919582@clayoberschule.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908231344210.13323-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com>
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| > I'm using FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE and have following | > problem : The clock from FreeBSD doesn't work correctly. | > | > One _reallife_ minute equals about 0.215307 seconds !! | > During start-up I see following numbers concerning the | > time. | > "Timecounter 'i8254' frequency 1193182 Hz" and | > "Timecounter 'TSC' frequency 99545827 Hz" ? | > | > I'm a little bit angry about this problem. | > What other informations should I also provide to help | > resolving this problem ? | | Be nice to know your hardware specs, especially motherboard, ram, | cpu. Also, are you overclocking your cpu? If so, try setting everything to | spec and try again. Not all motherboard/cpu combos support overclocking. I have an Elitegroup [I'm not sure if Elitegroup is the manufacturer] TR5510 Rev:1.1B Mainboard with an AMD K5-100 and 16 MB Ram, this CPU isn't overclocked. Theres no Cache available and just a graphics card [S3 Virge] and a keyboard plugged in [this is my minimal test configuration] The mainboard uses Intels 430FX Chipset. I discovered a very interesting thing: When my system is busy the time works correctly. For example: I set the screensaver activation time to one second. If the system is idle it takes more than 6 minutes until the screensaver turns on. If I open a huge file for example "ee /kernel" the screensaver turns on during the load process [if it takes more than 1 second]. Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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