On Sunday 05 June 2005 07:28, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Do you actually use pmtimer? Please send a dmesg log.
>
Full dmesg attached - 2.6.12-rc5 seems to use pmtimer.

From 2.6.12-rc5 -
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Jun  5 10:04:04 tux-gentoo [    0.000000] time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz PM timer.
Jun  5 10:04:04 tux-gentoo [    0.000000] time.c: Detected 797.956 MHz 
processor.
Jun  5 10:04:04 tux-gentoo [   14.020805] time.c: Using PIT/TSC based 
timekeeping.

And from 2.6.11-gentoo 
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May  3 22:31:03 tux-gentoo time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer.
May  3 22:31:03 tux-gentoo time.c: Detected 1994.883 MHz processor.

The differences in PM Timer MHz - is something wrong there? They seem to be 
dependent on processor MHz which is 797 MHz (lowest cpufreq) in 2.6.12-rc5 
and 1994 MHz (Highest cpufreq) on 2.6.11.

> Also note that pmtimer does not even drive the timer interrupt,
> just gettimeofday.

Could it be that the music players use gettimeofday() for time keeping? Sure 
enough they are broken with -rc5.

Parag