Interrupt storm in Compaq Presario Laptop

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:42 pm, Simeon Nifos wrote:
> Dear fellows,
> I have a Compaq presario 1230 laptop here!
>
> FreeBSD 4.11
> ------------
> Installs fine but:
> a) USB port doesn't work
> b) touchpad doesn't work
> c) /dev/psm0 cannot be found in /dev
>
> FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.3
> -------------------
> Installs fine but:
> a) USB port works fine
> b) touchpad doesn't work
> c) /dev/psm0 cannot be found in /dev
> d) time passes too quickly! 1 minute in FreeBSD 5.4
> and
>    5.3 passes every 10 seconds.

Not sure about c), though that explains b).  As far as d), I doubt your CPU 
runs at 24 MHz, so try changing the timecounter from TSC to i8254 via the 
kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl.

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