[expert] Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 Bad System Clock (was Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH)
Jose, I rebooted my GA-7ZX-1 to Windoze98 and have had it there for more than a day. The time remained accurate to the second. As far as I know, Windoze98 uses only the hardware clock for its timekeeping. OTOH, LM8.0 LM8.1 uses a combination of the PC's hardware clock its system clock. The system clock's time can drift away from the hardware clock's time by over an hour per day. The problem is further exacerbated when the shutdown process instructs the hardware clock to set its time to the screwed-up systemclock. Normally adjtimex can be used to adjust the drift rate of the system clock, LM8.0 LM8.1's drift rate fluctuates wildly rendering adjtimex useless. Since Wind98 and LM7.2 (pre 2.4 era) did not have this problem, I must say that this timer issue is not OS independent and is related to LM8.0 LM8.1 and perhaps any distro out there that uses the 2.4 kernel. I hope that they resolve this sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I'll abstain from purchasing suspect hardware. Sevatio On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:25am, you wrote: The timer issue is OS independent, and is not related to Linux. 7.2 did not have the routines which attempted to fix the problem AFAIK, whereas 8.x does. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 Bad System Clock (was Re: [newbie]gigabyte GA-7ZXH)
Or use ntp! BillK On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 04:47, Sevatio wrote: Jose, I rebooted my GA-7ZX-1 to Windoze98 and have had it there for more than a day. The time remained accurate to the second. As far as I know, Windoze98 uses only the hardware clock for its timekeeping. OTOH, LM8.0 LM8.1 uses a combination of the PC's hardware clock its system clock. The system clock's time can drift away from the hardware clock's time by over an hour per day. The problem is further exacerbated when the shutdown process instructs the hardware clock to set its time to the screwed-up systemclock. Normally adjtimex can be used to adjust the drift rate of the system clock, LM8.0 LM8.1's drift rate fluctuates wildly rendering adjtimex useless. Since Wind98 and LM7.2 (pre 2.4 era) did not have this problem, I must say that this timer issue is not OS independent and is related to LM8.0 LM8.1 and perhaps any distro out there that uses the 2.4 kernel. I hope that they resolve this sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I'll abstain from purchasing suspect hardware. Sevatio On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:25am, you wrote: The timer issue is OS independent, and is not related to Linux. 7.2 did not have the routines which attempted to fix the problem AFAIK, whereas 8.x does. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
