Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I was wondering about how to get the system clock to match the hardware clock when the system's time is 5 min slow. I can't use the NTP clients because of a rather ignorant windoze proxy (determined by trial and error), and I would prefer not to have

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 01:27, Seneca wrote: A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24 hours, the hardware clock has gone ~1 minute slow, but the system

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 01:27, Seneca wrote: A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:51:52PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I was wondering about how to get the system clock to match the hardware clock when the system's time is 5 min slow. I can't use the NTP clients because of a rather ignorant windoze

Slow kernel clock

2002-06-12 Thread Seneca
A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24 hours, the hardware clock has gone ~1 minute slow, but the system clock is now 20 minutes slow. I know

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:39:46AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 10:55, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [...] I doubt whether the dust could have caused it though - it still has the problem after a bit of cleaning. Don't say such things. A friend of mine had a failing

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 01:55 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote (slightly reformatted): * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: I have a machine that keeps

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 10 June 2002 13:21, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: I have to admit that I haven't measured the resistance (although I have a multimeter lying around somewhere). What amount of resistance should I expect on a good system? Don't know exactly, but if res is low between battery + contact and

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: | next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the | contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. | those batteries should last

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Bob Proulx
| Cheers. Didn't know about the alcohol trick. It's probably a terrible | waste of snaps though... Don't use liquor, use rubbing alcohol. (Sorry, I don't recal the scientific name off the top of my head right now. I used to know it.) Isopropyl alcohol. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it in the error messages) keeps jumping ahead -- then back, semi-randomly. It seems to do so by always the same

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread ben
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:35 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. those batteries should last for at least half a year. Cheers. Didn't know about the

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it in the error messages) keeps jumping ahead

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Puhek
appear. But I thought that the RTC was ignored after boot? If so, a bad RTC would explain a clock that comes up bad on boot every now and then, but not why a running system would suddenly shift time. --Rich _ Rich

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
. No URLs for you, I'm afraid, but if you google a bit, I'm sure it'll appear. But I thought that the RTC was ignored after boot? If so, a bad RTC would explain a clock that comes up bad on boot every now and then, but not why a running system would suddenly shift time. I might be using

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
, and someone mentioned that it was specific to a certain brand of mobo. No URLs for you, I'm afraid, but if you google a bit, I'm sure it'll appear. But I thought that the RTC was ignored after boot? If so, a bad RTC would explain a clock that comes up bad on boot every now

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
? If so, a bad RTC would explain a clock that comes up bad on boot every now and then, but not why a running system would suddenly shift time. I might be using the wrong terminology - I'm just remembering the symptoms from the l-k thread. Here's what I found from l-k. Not the thread

Re: how do i get the printer icon and clock back on my task bar.

2002-06-09 Thread pallix
re installed printer but still no clock or printer icon on task bar so cannot delete printing nor any oter way except print set up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how do i get the printer icon and clock back on my task bar.

2002-06-08 Thread WHITLEAS
have re installed printer but still no clock or printer icon on task bar so cannot delete printing nor any oter way except print set up.

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote (slightly reformatted): * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: I have a machine that keeps loosing it's CMOS settings. Changing battery works - for a couple of weeks. Just a guess: your quickly-discharging

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-07 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 07 June 2002 10:55, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [...] I doubt whether the dust could have caused it though - it still has the problem after a bit of cleaning. Don't say such things. A friend of mine had a failing harddisk... or so he thought. Turned out that the problem was a bunch of

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-07 Thread ben
On Friday 07 June 2002 01:55 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote (slightly reformatted): * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: I have a machine that keeps loosing it's CMOS settings. Changing battery works - for a

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | Problem: I have a machine that keeps loosing it's CMOS settings. | Changing battery works - for a couple of weeks. My dad has an old machine (486DX2) that has had the battery replaced a few times. Last time it died, he didn't

Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
the system time upon shutdown, and then read it in again upon start-up (rather than relying on the BIOS clock) ? I'd like to put a stop to those time-shifts... I suspect it's relatively easy to write myself, but I can't be the only one needing a software solution to a hardware problem... -- Karl E

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-06 Thread Cam Ellison
Just a guess: your quickly-discharging battery suggests a high-resistance or intermittent ground somewhere. Maybe you should take the box apart (completely) and have a close look? * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: I have a machine that keeps loosing it's CMOS settings.

[Offtopic] CPU FSB clock

2002-05-11 Thread Santiago Pastorino
Alguien me puede decir cuanto es el front side bus clock frequency de los micros Athlones XP 1700, creo que es 133 MHz pero me gustaría que me lo confirmen, gracias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Offtopic] CPU FSB clock

2002-05-11 Thread Van Slanzar
El mio va a 133, si te sirve de ayuda, tengo el mismo micro - Original Message - From: Santiago Pastorino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: [Offtopic] CPU FSB clock Alguien me puede decir cuanto es el front side bus

system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, When I did last reinstall I mistakenly selected the GMT option because, not running windows on the same machine, i thought that it would coexist fine with dos. Wrong! Now the linux clock is two hours ahead of the RTC (bios) which is obviously set at local clock-time for use when i boot dos

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:14:06PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote (1.00): I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Edit /etc/default/rcS and set UTC=no. Then, set your clock to the correct time. M

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:14 pm, Ian Balchin wrote: [snip] I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Look in /etc/default/rcS. Your UTC entry is probably yes. Try

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Ian Balchin wrote: I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance /etc/default/rcS -Tupshin

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-08 Thread Brian McGroarty
it on on system boot. I think vcstime only runs in the console, not in a terminal like an xterm. I need to see the clock when remotely logged in. You can also use the 'screen' package and add a status bar to the display which would let you keep a clock on screen even while using other

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
wrote: George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GK Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a GK character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be GK used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. For something

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a character-mode terminal? M-x display-time. You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right? 8^) I'm actually trying to un-learn emacs

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
, not in a terminal like an xterm. I need to see the clock when remotely logged in. If you want a copy of my `timescreen` script, let me know and I'll clean it up a bit and get a release out ;) Depends on what it does. If it can display the time while I'm logged in remotely and using the terminal

Character-mode clock

2001-12-05 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GK Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a GK character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be GK used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. For something quick, cheap

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-05 Thread Alan Shutko
George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a character-mode terminal? M-x display-time. You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right? 8^) Seriously, I seem to recall a few programs that would stuff it in the terminals

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-05 Thread nemo
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:21:31PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: Hi, Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode

Re: Real Time Clock Driver carte ASUS

2001-10-16 Thread Stephane Leclerc
Marche avec Kernel 2.4.12 seulement. Problème de bug dans un chip VIA. Bonjour, Quelqu'un a-t-il une info sur se problème. Avec une woody installé sur un disque IDE avec une carte ASUS cuv4x, le système s'arrête à la ligne Real Time Clock Driver. Je peux continuer en tapant sur CRTL-C

[OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread jh
Hi. I am building my computer today and have a question about a jumper setting. I need to set the jumper for the CPU Host Clock Selection and I'm not sure what this refers to. There are two choices, 100MHz and 133Mhz. the 133Mhz has a asterisk by it that says Reserved. Does this refer

RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
2001 17:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock Hi. I am building my computer today and have a question about a jumper setting. I need to set the jumper for the CPU Host Clock Selection and I'm not sure what this refers to. There are two choices, 100MHz

RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Voigt
and memory can run at different clocks. -Original Message- From: jh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 17:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock Hi. I am building my computer today and have a question about a jumper setting. I

RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock On Tuesday 10 April 2001 17:42, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Hi Jeff, This settings refers to the Front Side Bus, that's a the highway for your computer's mainboard where all other buses are relating to. If you this FSB to 133Mhz

[OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock (Thanks and solved)

2001-04-10 Thread jh
need to set the jumper for the CPU Host Clock Selection and I'm not sure what this refers to. There are two choices, 100MHz and 133Mhz. the 133Mhz has a asterisk by it that says Reserved. Does this refer to the kind of SDRAM I'm using? I am using PC 133 SDRAM 32x64 168 pin DIMM. The processor

Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
nothing to do with the Debian system you have. Why are you coming to the conclusion that 1+5=7 without doing some research first ? Of course it does. If you start running a M$ OS, then you need to change the way you run the linux clock if it's UTC. I've changed UTC=yes to UTC=no in /etc/default

Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Michael A. Miller posts: I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine Adding a Win 9x partition has nothing to do with the Debian system you have. Why are you coming to the conclusion that 1+5=7 without doing some research first ? I've changed UTC=yes to UTC=no in

suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-) cheers! jc

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-) some creative use of banner might be a fun

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-) I just

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! I just did this today. I used something called mcountd. It uses big numbers so it's probably what you're looking for. It's really a countdown program, so I had to modify it a little to just display the time. I can send it to you with the changes if you want. Could you send it to

hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-04 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine and would like to arrange for the hardware clock to use local time. I've changed UTC=yes to UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS, but my system is still getting changed back to utc. Can anyone point me to what else needs to be adjusted? Thanks, Mike

SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Friedrich Dumont
or the boot floopy then hangs at the following line: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK USING THE HARDWARE CLOCK AS REFERENCE... - I checked the AMI BIOS setup program and even reinstalled Debian/GNU Linux from scratch two other times choosing GMT and then local time but nothing seems to work. Any idea

Re: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Friedrich Dumont wrote: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK USING THE HARDWARE CLOCK AS REFERENCE... That should not be in caps, unless your terminal is seriously screwed up. But it's a good thing to notice that patch to better document the hwclock script paid back... You want to muck

RE: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
If you want to force the systems clock time to be that if the hardware clock time do: hwclock -s or hwclock --hctosys all syntax in this instance is lower case John -Original Message- From: Henrique M Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:10

RE: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Friedrich Dumont
Thank you guys (John and Henrique) for your prompt answers and sorry for the words in caps - just wanted to make them stand out from the rest of my message. More feedback ? --- Friedrich

clock with wrong time

2001-02-20 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
]:~$ telnet localhost 13 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Tue Feb 20 11:37:27 2001 Connection closed by foreign host. What is going on??? This happens every year when the clock changes from saving time BRST (-0200) to BRT (-0300) If I reboot the computer, I'm quite

Re: Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
David Wright wrote: I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know of an applet capable of showing times in different places? It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like. TZ=US/Eastern swisswatch I don't need another analog clock. I'd

Re: Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-19 Thread David Wright
swisswatch I don't need another analog clock. I'd really like to type the date/time at the prompt and get Eastern Standard time, or Pacific, etc. I'm now on European. So I don't wake people up... Thanks, Jonathan I looked at the date switches but saw nothing. Thinking about a shell

Looking for clock track different times?- Solved!

2001-02-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
David Wright wrote: TZ=US/Easterndate -that's the normal date command. ^_ as before, that's the timezone you want to be local. More briefly yet, TZ=EST date, if you're happy with this style of zone names. Perfect!! Exactly what I was

Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know of an applet capable of showing times in different places? There was that earth wallpaper and I think that's on there but can't find it. Any name suggestions? Thanks, Jonathan -- -==-

Re: Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know of an applet capable of showing times in different places? It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like. But then, all I want is one more clock showing

Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread James Green
at midday I got to it and it claimed it was around 3am. This is clearly wrong. If I leave the network connection up overnight, the clock is fine the next day. In fact, if I bring down the net connection during the day, the clock eventually gets set to the early hours again. This is puzzelling. I'm

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread randhol
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:32:05PM +, James Green wrote: Hi all, I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk without problem. You might have a problem with the battery of the BIOS. I think I

RE: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread Jason P Holland
overnight, the clock is fine the next day. In fact, if I bring down the net connection during the day, the clock eventually gets set to the early hours again. This is puzzelling. I'm thinking that somewhere there is a cron job to set the time using NTP and when no NTP servers are found the clock

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread David Wright
the early hours as the time. Today at midday I got to it and it claimed it was around 3am. This is clearly wrong. If I leave the network connection up overnight, the clock is fine the next day. In fact, if I bring down the net connection during the day, the clock eventually gets set

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread James Green
On 14 Feb 2001 14:38:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:32:05PM +, James Green wrote: Hi all, I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk without problem.

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread John Hasler
James Green writes: I leave the machine running overnight. The problem only occurs when I am NOT connected to the Internet. Sort of rules the battery I guess. Didn't you say that you had ntp installed? It corrects the clock when you are on the Net. Try shutting it down for a while. -- John

clock-chip autoprobe problems

2001-01-04 Thread Tom Schuetz
Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Meanwhile, X will kind of start, but all I get is a blue screen and an immobile pointer. Is there a line I can just insert in a config file? Is my

Re: clock-chip autoprobe problems

2001-01-04 Thread Jon Pennington
Tom Schuetz wrote: Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Why? Do you know for a fact that you need a clockchip setting? If you don't know this for a fact, you should NOT be probing

My system clock

2000-11-28 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Sorry everyone about my system clock being messed up in some of my messages. My mobo battery's kind of loose so it occassionaly resets. Thanks for all your messages tho. Brandt Dusthimer

Re: My system clock

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:25:27PM -0600, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: :Sorry everyone about my system clock being messed up in some of my messages. :My mobo battery's kind of loose so it occassionaly resets. Thanks for all :your messages tho. look into ntp and ntpdate, there was a recent thread

Re: xfree 4: unknown reason for exeption; clock problems

2000-11-18 Thread Gerhard Kroder
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] no, i intentionally posted to mailinglist first. But since nobody could help i'll goto bugs... Gerhard

xfree 4: unknown reason for exeption; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread Gerhard Kroder
. Here's a short summary, which is also my problem: ATI Rage 128 (should be a PRO, onboard, AGP), XFree 86 log says unknown reason for exception, unable to correctly retrieve adapter BIOS, Cannot shadow an accelerat ed frame buffer, Unknown programmable clock generator..., which causes no pixel

Re: xfree 4: unknown reason for exeption; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip bug report--nice formatting... -- a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone? I've seen mention of a thing called swisswatch. It's supposedly highly customizable, so maybe this is something it'll do.

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone? Not sure if this is what you want, but you can show any the time in any timezone using, eg, xclock. I have family in

X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone?

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
worldclock? erik Michael A. Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following lacklustre message: Connection with udp to x.x.x.x failed I converted to Debian a couple of weeks ago and

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:59:03 +0200, Morten Bo Johansen writes: Also if you have some other advice for me based on some package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that would appreciated. I can´t help you with this specific problem, but have you (simple approach) tried ntpdate (package

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following lacklustre message:

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
kmself@ix.netcom.com kmself@ix.netcom.com said: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what timeserver address I

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
) that are in Debian 2.2 that would appreciated. There are a few options that I know of: - ntp, which does a very good job of synchronizing your computer's clock with some timeservers with the NTP protocol - ntpdate, does a one time synchronize with a set of timeservers, also using the NTP

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Robert Waldner
, that advertises to keep the clock up to date without the complexity and perhaps resource requirements of ntp. I think you´re referring to xntpd, which afair not only sync´s your clock but also constantly measures the drift and adjustes accordingly... cheers, rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
appreciated. There is another one that I can't think of right now, that advertises to keep the clock up to date without the complexity and perhaps resource requirements of ntp. I think you´re referring to xntpd, which afair not only sync´s your clock but also constantly measures

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Eric G . Miller writes: There's also chrony: ... I've been using it for over a year on a dial-up. Barely had to do anything (set a password, choose a server). Actually you didn't have to do either (though I recommend that you do both). The postinst generates a random password, and a default

Re: Clock is incorrect, although NTP

2000-09-23 Thread Nate Amsden
its possible that the hardware clock is off, run 'hwclock' to see what it says, if it is different from the 'date' command you can run 'hwclock --systohc' to synch them. nate Frederik wrote: Hi, I've a strange problem: my clock is displaying an incorrect time since today (I had an X crash

Clock is incorrect, although NTP

2000-09-22 Thread Frederik
Hi, I've a strange problem: my clock is displaying an incorrect time since today (I had an X crash this morning, followed by a reboot). The time now on my machine is 18:43, although it's 17:31. This makes me believe it's not timezone-related... I have the package ntp installed, with 3 ntp-servers

Re: Clock is incorrect, although NTP

2000-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
Frederik said: I've a strange problem: my clock is displaying an incorrect time since today (I had an X crash this morning, followed by a reboot). The time now on my machine is 18:43, although it's 17:31. This makes me believe it's not timezone-related... I have the package ntp installed

setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread John Anderson
This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

RE: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 John Anderson wrote: This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? run tzconfig as root, choose EST5EDT. OR choose a city on the East coast of the U.S. Linux (and other unices

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Kent Pirkle
I think tzconfig is what you are looking for. On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:46PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? John Kerr

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
John Anderson wrote: This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? Try tzconfig -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great

ice window mgr clock

2000-08-07 Thread Dale Morris
I have 2 questions, after the ftp install of potato, my taskbar clock is 7 hours off, I must have selected something wrong in the initial configuration setup. How do I change it and get it back? Two: What package do I need to download to have ice windowmanager conf? I know there's a program

Re: ice window mgr clock

2000-08-07 Thread Morten Liebach
On 7, aug, 2000 at 09:01:55 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I have 2 questions, after the ftp install of potato, my taskbar clock is 7 hours off, I must have selected something wrong in the initial configuration setup. How do I change it and get it back? man 1 tzconfig should help you! Two

Re: ice window mgr clock

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:01:55AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I have 2 questions, after the ftp install of potato, my taskbar clock is 7 hours off, I must have selected something wrong in the initial configuration setup. How do I change it and get it back? You can set your timezone

Re: ice window mgr clock

2000-08-07 Thread Jens Luedicke
Hi there ... I'm using chronyd ... works well... On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:13:49 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ice window mgr clock On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:01:55AM -0700, Dale

world clock

2000-06-06 Thread Richard Black
Hi all does any one now of an X clock that can be set to a particular time zone? I would love to be able to show concurrently two or three clocks with the times in different countries. TIA Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla

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