DragonFlyBSD

ah yes, I have this as well. problem is: Xorg does its own BIOS-emulation instead of calling into the kernel to do a bios intr upcall. As a result 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 leave the timer in its default setting.

cheers
simon

: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>