Please share your .config with me! (was: Re: System clock hastening)

2005-08-11 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
My current conclusion is that my clock problem is something more serious than just a drift (the system clock gains a lot, and not constant amounts), maybe involving acpi, timers (hpet++), rtc, interrupts and whatnot, all of which I have just a limited understanding. (Probably not much of an

Re: System clock hastening

2005-08-10 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: Any ideas? Yep, I just use ntp (see BLFS). My hardware clock seems to gain even Tried this and went for the first option mentioned in the BLFS-book: Option one is to run ntpd continuously and allow it to synchronize the time in a

System clock hastening

2005-08-08 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
My system clock seems to gain an extra five minutes per hour, as reported by 'date' compared to 'hwclock --show'. (The hw clock seems to be reasonably accurate.) (The gain also seems to be dependent on what I do, eg., if the system is just idle, the system clock doesn't gain as much.) Googling

Re: System clock hastening

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: My system clock seems to gain an extra five minutes per hour, snip Any ideas? Yep, I just use ntp (see BLFS). My hardware clock seems to gain even when the system is switched off! I have a bootscript that syncs the clock to an ntp server at bootup, ntpd runs

Re: System clock hastening

2005-08-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: My system clock seems to gain an extra five minutes per hour, snip Any ideas? Yep, I just use ntp (see BLFS). My hardware clock seems to gain even when the system is switched off! I have a bootscript that syncs the