Heads up: Timer Problems

Freddie Cash fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca
Thu Sep 23 08:22:29 PDT 2004


On September 21, 2004 11:31 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> if you did experience timer problems like system time going wild,
> please try the new "options TIMER_USE_1" in your kernel config and
> report if this does (not) solve your problem. Even if you don't have
> problems, I'd like to know if this change does break any machine.

It's only been running for a day, and I haven't tried starting X yet, 
but the clock has remained stable through a buildworld and a 
buildkernel with this option enabled.  This is on my SeaNote 1 GHz 
laptop.  Will be testing X later this evening or tomorrow.

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