Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-01-03, John Merriam j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: Is it worth messing around with to try to get HPET working on the OptiPlex 320 in OpenBSD or would it be written off as buggy hardware? I guess that assumes it could work at all... Probably write off as buggy. Some automated way to

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-05 Thread John Merriam
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-01-03, John Merriam j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: Is it worth messing around with to try to get HPET working on the OptiPlex 320 in OpenBSD or would it be written off as buggy hardware? I guess that assumes it could work at all...

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathon Sisson
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:47:02AM -0500, John Merriam wrote: Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The clock doesn't move: # date; sleep 55; date Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice I have a Dell that

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathon Sisson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:23:24PM -0500, Jonathon Sisson wrote: # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice I have a Dell that has a broken clocksource that exhibits the same. Set kern.timecounter.choice to one of the other choices (you'll have to experiment with that, I can't help you there). Once

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-03 Thread John Merriam
On 1/2/2015 2:00 PM, Nathan Wheeler wrote: Try changing the value for the sysctl variable kern.timecounter.hardware? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: Hello. I have a strange

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Try changing the value for the sysctl variable kern.timecounter.hardware? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320.

OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread John Merriam
Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The clock doesn't move: # date; sleep 55; date Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 I see the same behavior with 5.6-release amd64 and -current amd64. The clock works fine in Windows and Linux on this