From:	tweety AT Torino DOT ALPcom DOT it (Jurgen Schwietering)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: wired realmode-call and uclock()
Date:	21 Dec 1996 17:00:28 GMT
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Gal Andreas (gal AT hppool DOT cs DOT Uni-Magdeburg DOT DE) wrote:
: 2. I have a Simens Nixdorf PCD4NL Laptop, 486DX66/2 and uclock seems to 
: fail. The values I get from the each uclock()-calls are permutating up 
: and down, with tendence to grow (I guess the "bios_ticks" are counted ok, 
: but the timer3 is counting still-by-2?).

uclock reprogrammes the timer chip. Have a lock to the source file
.\src\libc\pc_hw\timer\uclock.c. You could try to change it at line 31 (?)
with outportb(0x40, 0x36) instead of (0x40, 0x34).

Jurgen

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