Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa pmtimer.c

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:24:37 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> :JFYI: sometime around here, or soon before, an old problem resurfaced
> :on my DragonFly box.  This is the problem, back from when the box was
> :running FreeBSD:
> :
> :  http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2233514B
> :
> :It was just never a problem in DragonFly (until now.)
> :
> :I've tried both of these in /boot/loader.conf:
> :
> :  hw.i8254.walltimer=1
> :  hw.i8254.walltimer=2
> :
> :with no change ('sleep 10' takes 5 seconds to finish.)  The only way
> :I've found to correct the clock, so far, is to boot with ACPI disabled.
> :
> :I'm updating now to see if anything subsequent has already fixed it.
> :
> :Thanks,
> :-Chris
> 
>     Around that time we start using the ACPI timer for our timebase if
>     it is present.  You can disable it by putting 'timer' in the
>     debug.acpi.disabled kernel environment during boot.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That does the trick.  Thanks.

-Chris