Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

HI!

> Searching through the mailing list I could not find a
> reference to this problem, hence this post.
> 
> Having ran various kernel and distribution
> combinations (SGI's 2.4.2-xfs bundled with their Red
> Hat installer, 2.4-xfs-1.0 and 2.4 CVS trees, Linux
> Mandrake with default kernel 2.4.3, and lastly
> 2.4.5-ac9), compiled for generic i386 and/or Transmeta
> Crusoe with APM off or on, one thing sticks out : a
> clock drift of a few minutes per day.
> 
> This problem might not be noticeable for most users
> since notebooks are not normally left running that
> long, but it is rather serious. I can choose not to
> sync the software and hardware clock on shutdown and
> re-read the hardware clock every hour or so but it is
> rather kludgy.
> 
> Any suggestions and/or user experiences more than
> welcome.

Let me guess: vesafb?

If problem goes away when you stop using framebuffer (i.e. go X), then
it is known. 

You are lucky. My machine is able to loose 2 minutes from every 3
minutes.

try time cat /etc/termcap, and check it against stopwatch.
 								Pavel
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