Re: nforce4 hardware: disappeared rtc device
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:50:54PM +0200, H?kan Stefansson wrote:
> I'm setting up Sarge (the stable amd64 release) on a new system vith an
> Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard. I'm not using SLI, just one XFX geforce
> 6600 GT PCIE grapics card. I'm using the 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 kernel and
> the nvidia graphcs driver, installed from the Debian packages. The
> graphics seems to work with X-windows but is not much tested yet.
>
> The problem is that the system time was not correctly set up at boot and
> there is no /dev/rtc device file. hwclock --hctosys complains about that
> and refuses to set the system clock.
>
> If I manually create the device file (mknod rtc c 10 135), then hwclock
> --hctosys works and sets the time correctly. Now, if I reboot the
> system, the problem is back and the /dev/rtc I created has disappeared!
>
> Any ideas?
Using udev or devfs perhaps?
Could always add rtc or whatever the driver is called to /etc/modules
and see if that makes a difference.
Len Sorensen
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