Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:09:15 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real time clock problem in 3.1-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904081404210.28846-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <370C9F37.BDC6D685@newsguy.com>
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Something to do with the kernel not understanding the Real Time Clock hardware properly? Checking through the ntp logs I note that for one time whilst the machine was up the time was getting set correctly. However, after the next reboot the clock was drifting again. On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mark Powell wrote: > > > > Installed 3.1-STABLE on an Apricot Shogun server. xntpd wouldn't sync time > > correctly though. I set it up just as I do on any other machine. However, > > on the same machine RedHat 5.2 can sync the time just fine. > > Are you running securelevel>1? No. Should I be? > Try completely disabling APM on BIOS. I mean *completely*, as in > *all* options. There are some BIOS in which APM will *not* be > completely disabled unless you disable *all* options related to it, > no matter what the fields description would led you to believe. There is no APM in the BIOS. This is a >2yr old server with big motherboard 2xPCI buses and an EISA bus. It supports extra processors on daughtercards, but currently only has one card with one processor installed. > Alternatively, try using a kernel with APM. How will APM affect the time? Mark Powell - System Administrator (UNIX) - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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