Re: text screen saver movement stops

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Hi,
:
:How about some suggestions to debug the previously
:mentioned problem? and the following?
:
:I have two identical PR400FX intel MB's connected via ethernet
:one DFly 1.0-RC2 , the other FreeBSD 5.1-p6. 
:
:I have noticed that the date command on the dfly machine will give
:a different time than the date command on another system (FreeBSD 5.1)
:that is acting as a ntp server for it.
:The time difference has been greater than 6 hours.
:When the dfly system gets some activity on it, and perhaps gets
:the appropriate thread scheduled, the ntpd program will
:slew the clock back to being correct.
:
:I have ran FreeBSD 4.10 on this hardware, over the weekend,
:and do not believe that there is a hardware problem.
:
:Cheers,
:
:eric

    Hmm.  This is going to be 8254 related.  I don't think we are going 
    to be able to fix it for the first release but we know there are 
    timebase issues.  FreeBSD-5 is probably using a different timer for
    its timebase (look for 'Timecounter' lines in FreeBSD-5's dmesg
    output).  Right now we are only using the 8254 and some motherboards
    have drift issues the the startup calibration does not appear to
    handle well.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>