stable-8 regression: time stands still

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:09:21PM +0100, C. P. Ghost typed:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:
> > malenfant# sysctl kern.timecounter
> > kern.timecounter.tick: 1
> > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) HPET(900) ACPI-safe(850) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
> > kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET
> 
> Just a wild guess... but is HPET really enabled in the BIOS?

Well, there's no such option in the BIOS. Just checked. It's btw an AMI BIOS.
I'm totally unfamiliar with timecounter hardware, but after resetting the BIOS to
factory settings (which I think it allready was, since I only change anything 
there when there is a real reason) the problem persists.

I'm going to get this kern.timecounter sysctl from the system booted with a 7.x livecd 
this evening. But really, I think this is a regression. Even if this system is the only
one known to be affected (which I sincerely doubt).

Ruben

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