Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: clock too slow (6 times !) in kernel 2.0.36+ (Xeon450/permedia2) | From | Anders Melchiorsen <> | Date | 15 Dec 1998 21:27:15 +0100 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > the machine has a Permedia 2 AGP video card, that gets set to IRQ10 by > > > the BIOS. > > > The kernel clock runs fine, until I start X (XFree86-3DLabs-3.3.3). After > > > that, the clock runs about six times too slow. > > > So it takes about 6 seconds before there have been 100 timer interrupts. > > > > You need to report Xserver problems to the XFree project. They run the > > server in user space highly priviledged so it is capable of screwing up > > things like the clock. > > IRQ10 should mean nothing. The clock runs on IRQ0. However, with my > new buggy-bios "thunder" motherboard, I found that moving an offending > card to the slot furtherest away from the CPU "fixes" things. > > His screen card is not movable (AGP connector), however something > else might be. > > So much for plug-and-play.
It is a software problem, and a fixed one, too.
I have already (in private e-mail) pointed the original poster to an X server (the one from SUSE) that does not have this problem. The XFree86 server is fixed now, but they have not yet put new binaries up.
End of thread?
-- Regards, Anders (address is valid)
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