Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:33:16PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Yuri van Oers wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Kenneth Crudup wrote: > > > > Looking thru a couple of months of list archives turned up nothing, so: > > > > > > > > When running 4.1.0 on my laptop using a S3Virge MX, my system clock loses > > > > at least two seconds per minute. > > > > > > > > I've done everything I can to narrow this down, and the bottom line is > > > > when X is running, even in a "fresh" weave (running "X" only), even when > > > > the VT is not active, my clock is slowed. I've tried pulling out all > > > > the optional stuff (fifo_aggressive, the pci-burst/retry stuff, > > > > NoPM, you name it). I've got an AMD K6-2 at 400MHz. > > > > > > I must say I've been noticing a time shift in my PC's clock as well. It > > > didn't bother me much, as the difference is not that big, over quite a > > > long period of time (in my case, anyway). Therefore, I haven't sought to > > > find the cause. > > > My hardware differs a lot from yours, so if the X server is causing time > > > loss, I wouldn't blame it on any of the drivers. > > > > > > I'm curious as to what others think and/or experience... > > > > I recall a typo in the 3Dlabs driver a long time ago that was > > doing outb to a register that messed with the clock. I don't > > remember which. You might look for portIO happening on > > non vga registers (ie, something outside of the 0x3cX range). > > > That was in the 3.3.x days - a LONG time ago. > > Alan.
This is the first time I've heard anything like this recently. How do you notice the clock shift? (Meaning, how do I try and repeat your problem.) I have a AMD based system here, running with a ViRGE DX. It's been up for a couple days, and the clock is currently ahead of the time standard I set it from by a couple minutes. What are you using to read and display time? Are both the hardware and soft clocks affected? I assume it doesn't lose the 2 seconds/min when X is not running? Just out of curiosity, what happens if you comment out "option 'dpms'" in your monitor section? -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
