On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Rodrigues writes: > >Is there a problem with the ACPI code or with my > >hardware (an ASUS P5A-B motherboard from about 3 or 4 years ago). > > > >How can I default to i8254 as my default timer? Is there > >something I should put in device.hints? > > Put it in /etc/rc.early: > sysctl kern.timecounterhardware=i8254
I put the following lin in /etc/sysctl.conf and it did the job: kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > I have not been able to understand in what way this board fails :-( > > Does the time run uniformly fast, ie: 7 minutes every 5, all the > time, or is it erratic ? I didn't do a very thorough analysis of the problem, but it seemed to erratic. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
