Crazy clock

[Atte Peltomaki]

> > > > 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 :)

Problem is reproduceable in both console and when running X. Also ACPI
doesn't seem to have any impact, as didn't the CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION
option. I'm right now recompiling with the TIMER_USE_1 option.. Oh and
boot -v showed no relevant information regarding timing after 15mins.


-Atte