Hey Punky, Thanks for getting back to me. So you're saying I have a choice between a working clock or a working watchdog, I can't have both?
Robert -----Original Message----- From: Punky Tse [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 February 2010 02:48 To: Robert Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Clock Drift Hi Robert, Disabling mfgpt will make geode watchdog driver no functional. [ 22.373287] geodewdt: No timers were available Regards, Punky Robert wrote: > Hi Punky, Thierry, > > Thanks very much for that suggestion. Tell me, is there any downside to > adding that boot parameter? is it likely to cause me other issues? > > Many thanks, > > Rob > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Thierry MUSEUX - www.fwt.fr - [[email protected]] > Sent: 25 February 2010 16:58 > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [Voyage-linux] Clock Drift > > Hi, > > I have put in /boot/grub/menu.lst > kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT_FS console=ttyS0,38400n8 nomfgpt > > and in /etc/crontab > 15 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate 0.fr.pool.ntp.org >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > This solve the issue. > > > Thierry Museux > France Wireless Technologies > www.fwt.fr > msn: [email protected] > Tel: + 33 (0) 1 41 08 70 78 > Gsm: + 33 (0) 6 15 22 09 62 > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Roel > Huybrechts > Envoyé : jeudi 25 février 2010 17:40 > À : Robert > Cc : [email protected] > Objet : Re: [Voyage-linux] Clock Drift > > Hi Rob, > > Op donderdag 25-02-2010 om 08:26 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Robert: > >> Hello Guys, >> >> I've got some pretty serious clock drift on all the ALIX 3d2 which we've >> > got. Seems that after even just a short period of running the time on the > systems is quite out of sync with the real time. > >> Is this a common issue? We've had it for a long time but I've only >> > recently sat down and tried to find a solution to the problem. Is this > hardware related? or something software related? > >> Appreciate any advice you can offer. >> >> Rob >> > > I've experienced the same issue on the ALIX 2d2 boards here. I've been > able to greatly reduce the drift by installing the adjtimex package. > > Hope this helps for you as well. > > Regards > > -- > Roel Huybrechts > > GPG | 4096R/5E2DE374 > | http://rulus.be/gpg > > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > > Support Time Managed Services - monitoring and development for entire > business technology > > Tel: 0800 999 4333 > www.supporttime.com > > Support Time Limited > 1000 Lakeside North Harbour > Portsmouth PO6 3EZ United Kingdom > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > Support Time Managed Services - monitoring and development for entire business technology Tel: 0800 999 4333 www.supporttime.com Support Time Limited 1000 Lakeside North Harbour Portsmouth PO6 3EZ United Kingdom _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
