Re: System Clock racing on 1.8.0-REL+xorg

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:ah yes, I have this as well.  problem is:  Xorg does its own BIOS-emulati=
:on instead of calling into the kernel to do a bios intr upcall.  As a res=
:ult the timer will get reprogrammed and the kernel doesn't know so it can=
:'t reset the clock.  why are the BIOS doing this shit?  we should either =
:prevent everybody from mocking with this or use a different timer or leav=
:e the timer in its default setting.
:
:cheers
:  simon

    It is a serious problem with a lot of video bioses.  I can only 
    recommend that people not use VESA modes at all when trying to run
    X.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>