> 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?
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