On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 03:30:41PM +0100, Oriol Demaria wrote: > Actually both things fix the issue. Seems to be better just changing the > timecounter, rather than running on just one core. I noticed by the way that > when I run sysupgrade, or upgrade as before the SP kernel is the one > installed. And I have to change manually and reboot. Also I noticed that > when I run dmesg both kernels output data. Can't recall if this was the > usual behavior. > > So, are there any advise against running with acpihpet0 timecounter instead > of tsc? I'm attaching my dmesg.
On AMD hardware, it's best to use acpihpet0 as your timecounter. +--+ Carlos > > timecounters: > > sysctl kern.timecounter > kern.timecounter.tick=1 > kern.timecounter.timestepwarnings=0 > kern.timecounter.hardware=acpihpet0 > kern.timecounter.choice=i8254(0) tsc(2000) acpihpet0(1000) acpitimer0(1000) > dummy(-1000000) > > Regards, > > --- > Oriol Demaria > 2FFED630C16E4FF8 > > On 10/05/2019 01:15, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 04:17:40PM +0100, Oriol Demaria wrote: > > > I have this laptop and I'm having issues with this laptop. Wireless > > > has to > > > be replaced and basically have to wait till the graphics card is > > > properly > > > supported, right now is running X with the UEFI framebuffer. So this > > > issues > > > are expected. > > > > > > But I'm having a very annoying bug on X. The mouse stops working, > > > specially > > > Firefox seems to be a problem, but other apps too (perhaps I notice > > > more > > > here as others I mainly use the keyboard). When I run xprop to try > > > to figure > > > out something I get the error "Can't grab the mouse" and won't run. > > > Seems > > > that some event holds the mouse, and prevents you from "clicking". > > > > > > Changed the touchpad to synaptics to see if it makes difference, > > > seems to > > > improve a bit, but still the problem comes back. The other mouse > > > devices are > > > using ws driver. Has someone got a workaround for this? Similar > > > experience? > > > > Try a non-mp kernel or sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=acpihpet0
