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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:57:17 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Clock question
Message-ID:  <20010924215717.A52B2D4@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0C9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
References:  <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0C9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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On Monday 24 September 2001 01:51 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Beech Rintoul
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:38 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Clock question
> >
> >
> > I have an old 486 on our net that works perfectly except for
> > the clock.
> > ntp resets the time constantly, and this box looks like it
> > gains about 2
> > minutes an hour. Is there anything I can do to get this under control?
> > The box runs as secondary DNS and works great for that purpose.
> > BTW it's running 4.4-STABLE.
>
> When I setup ntpd on my old 486 some time ago, someone on the list
> suggested adding some options to the kernel and recompiling.  I don't
> understand what it does but it worked for me and my clock was way off. 
> Here's a clip from the message:
>
> <clip>
> Another thing you can try is changing your clock source.  Add the
> following lines to your kernel config file and recompile:
>
> options         CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION
> options         CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION
>
> That should calibrate two internal clocks against the CMOS clock, which
> is usually pretty accurate.
> </clip>
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Drew
>
> > Beech

Thanks, I'll give that a try.


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