Re: setting system clock-rate

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

Do you have kern.timecounter?

On 3/1/09, Kristoff Bonne <kristoff.bonne%skypro.be@localhost> wrote:
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>  Hi Matthew,
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>  matthew sporleder schreef:
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>  I have installed netbsd 4.0.1 on an old PC (pentium III, 1 Ghz).
>  Due to some reason (probably hardware I guess), the system-clock runs
>  about 3 % to fast. The RTC-clock is correct, but the system-clock goes 1
>  to 2 seconds more in advance every minute.
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>  Can you look in machdep.est
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>  Is this for CPU-scaling?
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>  I do not think this is related to this, as I have this problem on any OS I
> run on the box, windows98 (which came with it), linux or netbsd.
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>  BTW. I did try the installation-procedure as found here (see URL below) and
> it doesn't work. When I start esd, it says "estd: Cannot guess CPU-scaling
> technology. (maybe you are missing some kernel-option?)"
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>  (URL: http://wiki.netbsd.se/CPU_frequency_scaling)
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>  here some other info:
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>  * "sysctl machdep.est.frequency.current" does now exist.
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>  * #uname -a
>  NetBSD phobos.thuis 4.0.1 NetBSD 4.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Oct  7 22:58:48
> PDT 2008
> builds@wb30:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200810080053Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> i386
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>  * #dmesg | grep -i cpu
>  cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
>  cpu0: Intel Pentium III (686-class), 965.23 MHz, id 0x68a
>  cpu0: features
> 383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR>
>  cpu0: features 383f9ff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
>  cpu0: features 383f9ff<FXSR,SSE>
>  cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way
>  cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32B/line 8-way
>  cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
>  cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
>  cpu0: 8 page colors
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>  Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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