Another reply to my own post: I can now confirm that there is a bug in 2.6.18 which is resolved in 2.6.19.
I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.19 and my clock on the soekris boards behave again properly. In the 2.6.19 changelog I found the following entry. I you check the bugzilla link, you'll see that my problem has been identified before and fixed in 2.6.19. So let's upgrade asap to .19 or if someone doesn't like to work with the newest kernel version, go back to an older kernel by choice. Author: Jim Cromie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Oct 4 02:15:35 2006 -0700 [PATCH] scx200_hrt: fix precedence bug manifesting as 27x clock in 1 MHz mode. Fix paren-placement / precedence bug breaking initialization for 1 MHz clock mode. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7242 Now my "show translation" gives also again proper figures :) cheers, Ingmar Ingmar Schraub wrote: > Hi Darrick, > > thanks for helping! > > I am not running any 'release' images, but I always compile my own > version of astlinux. Mainly from my branch, which is these days almost > in sync with the trunc. > > Well, meanwhile I identified the source of my problem. It's the 2.6.18 > kernel. > > To make sure my hardware isn't faulty, I took the CF card from my > properly working -50 board to the -60 board. The clock behaved just > fine. I was happy to see that because fixing software is easier than > hardware ;-) > > After that I played with various kernel settings, re-compiled the 2.6.18 > kernel many times, but the clock still didn't behave, I decided to > downgrade the kernel to 2.6.16.12 (we used that kernel in a previous > release). And that did the trick! Everything's fine again. > > I noticed in the kernel settings, that the 2.6.18 kernel has quite a few > more RTC-related settings compared to the 2.6.16.12. However, I could > not find you yet, what's causing the trouble on the soekris boards. > > Does anybody else run a Soekris system with the 2.6.18 kernel? Could you > please run 'date' a few times to see if there is any problem? > > I am going to plug-in the 2.6.19 kernel now to see if that makes any > difference! > > I'll keep you posted. > > cheers, Ingmar > > Darrick Hartman wrote: >> Ingmar- >> >> What version of Astlinux are you running on the -50 box? It appears >> that you have two different versions (from the kernel version). If >> everything else was the same, I would say you might have some bad >> hardware, but with the differences in kernel versions, perhaps there is >> another problem. >> >> Can you try swapping the compact flash and see if it's a hardware >> problem or a software problem? >> >> Darrick >> >> Ingmar Schraub wrote: >>> Replying to my own post... >>> >>> I just noticed that the clock on my -60 box runs crazy. Ntp started to >>> sync the clock, but if you enter a few times "date", you see the time >>> doing big jumps. >>> >>> Wondering why this happens on this new soekris board. >>> >>> thanks, Ingmar >>> >>> Ingmar Schraub wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I have running two Astlinux systems. Both running on a Soekris net4801 box. >>>> >>>> The first is a 4801-50, the second is a 4801-60. I use the latter one >>>> for testing only, the -50 is my production system. >>>> >>>> Now, when running "show translation" I get totally different numbers. Of >>>> course, I am running different Astlinux versions on both. But I am >>>> surprised a bit to see that the numbers are that much different. >>>> >>>> 1.) >>>> 4801-50 >>>> uname -a: >>>> Linux pbx 2.6.16.12 #1 PREEMPT Tue Aug 29 11:43:35 CEST 2006 i586 unknown >>>> Asterisk 1.2.11 >>>> >>>>> Translation times between formats (in milliseconds) >>>>> Source Format (Rows) Destination Format(Columns) >>>>> >>>>> g723 gsm ulaw alaw g726 adpcm slin lpc10 g729 speex ilbc >>>>> g723 - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> gsm - - 28 28 74 32 26 144 - - 447 >>>>> ulaw - 111 - 1 50 8 2 120 - - 423 >>>>> alaw - 110 1 - 49 7 1 119 - - 422 >>>>> g726 - 156 49 49 - 53 47 165 - - 468 >>>>> adpcm - 113 6 6 52 - 4 122 - - 425 >>>>> slin - 109 2 2 48 6 - 118 - - 421 >>>>> lpc10 - 159 52 52 98 56 50 - - - 471 >>>>> g729 - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> speex - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> ilbc - 208 101 101 147 105 99 217 - - - >>>>> >>>> 2.) >>>> 4801-60 >>>> uname -a: >>>> Linux pbx 2.6.18 #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 28 13:59:27 CET 2006 i586 unknown >>>> Asterisk 1.2.13 >>>> >>>>> Translation times between formats (in milliseconds) >>>>> Source Format (Rows) Destination Format(Columns) >>>>> >>>>> g723 gsm ulaw alaw g726 adpcm slin lpc10 g729 speex ilbc >>>>> g723 - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> gsm - - 827 828 2104 938 759 4002 - - 12545 >>>>> ulaw - 3027 - 20 1388 222 43 3286 - - 11829 >>>>> alaw - 3027 23 - 1388 222 43 3286 - - 11829 >>>>> g726 - 4298 1382 1383 - 1493 1314 4557 - - 13100 >>>>> adpcm - 3109 193 194 1470 - 125 3368 - - 11911 >>>>> slin - 2984 68 69 1345 179 - 3243 - - 11786 >>>>> lpc10 - 4452 1536 1537 2813 1647 1468 - - - 13254 >>>>> g729 - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> speex - - - - - - - - - - - >>>>> ilbc - 5869 2953 2954 4230 3064 2885 6128 - - - >>>>> >>>> Can anybody explain this? The newer version seems to be the slower version? >>>> >>>> thanks and regards, >>>> >>>> Ingmar >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users >>>> >>>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL >>>> PROTECTED] >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users >>> >>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL >>> PROTECTED] >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
