On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: > uname -a > OpenBSD arktomis.bautzi.de 4.2 GENERIC#374 i386 > > 0) The worst problem is when I boot with bsd.mp... the boot process > freezes and the last lines I get are as shown in this picture: > > www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/BSDMP.jpg > > dmesg for GENERIC is to be found at > > www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/dmesg_x61s.txt > > (the last lines come from a digital camera, ignore them)
What happens when you boot a 4.1_STABLE MP kernel? Try it off a CDROM or sloppy disk. > 1) halt -p turns the screen black (no shutdown > messages) No help here. > 2) I'm not quite sure the sound is working... look at this Or here ;-( > 3) The clock is set wrongly... how can I correct it? the quick-and-dirty method is to run rdate as soon as it connects to a network. THe rdate manpage example is for Germany, so it should work for you without any changes. This should also set your system time to UTC; if the time keeps going bad over power cycles, (evidence: a message during boot saying "setting time from file system" or words to that effect), then suspect a bad motherboard battery, the little one, not the big laptop "bombs". (If no internet, use sudo date and your wristwatch, set to local time. If your timezone in /etc/localtime is correct, this should set the system clock to UTC, which is what you want.) I just tried the manpage rdate example. It didn't work for some reason with the .de host, complaining of "invalid cookie". Tried again later, now it does work. Hmmm. I didn't break it. I didn't fix it. Also, the n and c options may not be desirable. If I include leap-seconds, my localtime is 23 seconds off from time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov, the gold standard of time. If I don't include leapseconds with -c, I am dead-on. (less than 1 sec difference). I run ntpd on my "gateway" host, with default settings, using a pool of hosts in the U.S. Any opinions on leap-seconds? Should I be setting them in ntpd somehow? I know there is a leap-seconds controversy, and that different governments have differing opinions about how they apply to "legal" or "civil" time. But I don't know what this controversy is. Time is very complicated, distance is simple by comparison, even if we talk of curved space -- less government involvement. Dave _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
