Georg Vollnhals wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Stefan Seifert schrieb: >> >> Maybe your system simply doesn't have a hpet clocksource. For example my >> system at home only has: >> acpi_pm jiffies tsc >> >> You can get the available clocksources by issuing: >> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource >> >> In my case I'd try acpi_pm first and then jiffies. Any way, jiffies should >> be >> the last, since it's only a simple CPU-cycle counter. But it may still work >> well if you use ntpd for network time synchronization. >> >> > this helped! You are right, no hpet clocksource available on my system. > I followed your advice and selected acpi_pm. > > dhcppc2:/home/georg # cat > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource > tsc acpi_pm jiffies > > dhcppc2:/home/georg # cat > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource > acpi_pm > > Ok, now I'll wait and see how the behaviour of the clock is now :-) > >>> May be my OpenSUSE is lacking something? Ok, at least it was worth >>> trying and I learned something new. >>> >> Don't give up too early :) >> >> Regards, >> Stefan >> >> > No,never! > I am just no "give me 2 seconds" man, more a ruminant with small pieces > of unknown stuff, spitting out the result 2 months later. > > Once again, thank you very much for your help!!!
Assuming the machine has an internet connection - if you install ntp and set it to sync from pool.ntp.org you'll never need to worry about such problems again - it'll sync from an internet clock source within a few minutes of starting up, and then stay in sync. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
