From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:14:20 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Ethan Blanton Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Clock drift on an iBook2 Message-ID: <20010717101420.B2878@opus.bloom.county> References: <20010717102730.B22214@localhost.localdomain> <20010717165032.5490@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> <20010717130425.G22214@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010717130425.G22214@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:04:25PM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt spake unto us the following wisdom: > > >I have a new iBook2 and I'm having *severe* clock drift problems -- on > > >the order of several seconds gained per minute. I'd like to get this > > >taken care of, and it seems to be a linux problem as OSX appears to > > >have a stable clock. > > > > Are you using MOL or do you experience this with nothing special running ? > > Nothing special... I tried using ntpd to fix the problem, but it > didn't seem to be able to set the system time and I'm not sure why. Does your kernel have CONFIG_PPC_RTC enabled? (_not_ CONFIG_RTC). -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/