On 11/29/05, Eirik Øverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:37 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >> > >> On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:15 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Eirik Oeverby wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >>>>>> Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal. > >>>>>> However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address > >>>>>> differences): > >>>>>> > >>>>>> 30c30 > >>>>>> < Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > >>>>>> --- > >>>>>>> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> What on earth is that all about? The "slow" box has the ACPI-fast > >>>>>> timecounter... > >>>>> > >>>>> Could be ACPI bugs on your system: > >>>> > >>>> Yes, but the other system is 100% equal - hardware, bios config, > >>>> bios and > >>>> bootblock revision, controller bioses, etc. etc. > >>>> It all matches. > >>> > >>> Clearly they're not 100% equal, but (100-epsilon)%. Your job is to > >>> identify the origin of the epsilon :-) > >> > >> Yea yea ;) Working on it.. > >> Is there a way to force ACPI-safe on the slower system? > > > > I think someone already mentioned this..see the > > kern.timecounter.hardware and other kern.timecounter sysctls. > > I have now forced ACPI-safe on the slow system, to match the fast one. > Too bad though, it made absolutely zero difference. > > I'm upgrading BIOSes on both boxes now, even though they seem equal. > Then I'll see what ACPI debug output shows me. If you have any other > hints or ideas, please let me know... thanks so far. > > /Eirik
Have you tired turning off ACPI at boot time. Is there an option to turn it off in the BIOS. This is an HP box correct? I have had some fun in the past chasing down hard to reproduce ACPI problems on HP hardware before, after much software trouble shooting I realized that by turning some knob's in the BIOS got the machines to a stable state (in my case I turned off USB "auto detection"). HTH -pete > > > > > Kris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
