Hi Marco I had the same problem on an old Pentium PC - except the clock run 10 times faster, not 7 ;-)
I solved it by adding a 'clock=pit' to the kernel line in Grub's menu.lst (PIT = Programmable Interval Timer). This may or may not solve your problem, but here it is, the idea. Kind regards, Bent 2007/8/28, Marco Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > just got my 5501 a few days back. > It's running fine, except that the rtc is running much faster than realtime. > > ~ # while true; do hwclock; sleep 1; done > Fri Aug 24 17:09:08 2007 -0.042069 seconds > Fri Aug 24 17:09:15 2007 -0.091774 seconds > Fri Aug 24 17:09:22 2007 -0.095677 seconds > Fri Aug 24 17:09:29 2007 -0.095722 seconds > > As you can see, the rtc is doing steps of 7 seconds, while its readout > every second. > > I've also tested it with the bios "time" cmd, but get exactly the same > time drift of 7s/1s. > > comBios version is 1.32 > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > -- > Marco Neubauer > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
