Crazy clock

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Atte Peltomaki wrote:
> > > DragonFlyBSD doesn't seem to be able to keep the date, and it has been
> > > so for quite a while now. Is there a fix in horizon, or should I set up
> > > a cronjob for ntpdate that runs every minute? >:)
> > 
> > Can you be a bit more verbose.
> > 
> > a) Are you using VESA or APM or other stuff which results in BIOS calls?
> > b) Are you using SMP / HTT?
> > c) Your machine is ... with verbose dmesg ...
> 
> I'm not using APM, probably not VESA, but I am using ACPI. You ask
> difficult, I don't really know which drivers need BIOS calls :)
> 
> My box is dual p3, see below for dmesg.

Are you running X when the problems occur? Does it change if you are at the
console? Sorry, I know this is difficult :)

Joerg