From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 30 18:50:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D909D14F67 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@cybcon.com) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@pm3b-16.cybcon.com [205.147.75.81]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06126; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:50:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:45:31 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods To: GReg meno Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Fow what its worth, I got this when the internal battery was dead. I replaced, set time and date, all is well On 31-Jan-00 GReg meno wrote: > i'm running FreeBSD 4.0-19991225-CURRENT > on an LX164 > > greg > --- Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote: >> >> > my systems time is messed up >> > date returns a random time which is sometimes off >> a >> > day and a few hours or a year >> > on bootup i get >> > >> > WARNING: preposterous clock chip time >> > --- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! >> > >> > what is going on here? >> >> Need some more details. There was, hee hee, a y2k >> bug when it didn't >> believe that year < 70 was a valid year. This was >> fixed around the 2nd of >> January for -current. So -what kernel are you >> running. What machine, >> etc... >> >> If you are running this particular machine with >> OSF/1, there's a different >> interpretation on the NVRAM in the toy (chip), or if >> you switch with ARC >> and run NT, there's yet *another* intepretation of >> NVRAM, so they all step >> on each other. This is a known problem, but hasn't >> been a high priority >> issue to fix. >> >> >> > >> > PS is there some website for freebsd alpha >> simmilar to >> > www.alphalinux.org that has answers to all these >> kind >> > of questions ? >> >> Wish there was- I don't know if there really is one >> set up yet. We sure >> need one. >> >> -matt >> >> >> > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 30-Jan-00 Time: 17:07:58 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message