Re: system clock drift in Debian 3.0r2 (Woody) on PB G4
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:05, Bill Edwards wrote:
> My system clock is losing more than one minute out of every five
> minutes. Here are my system details:
>
> Hardware: Powerbook G4 667 MHz
> Debian: 3.0r2 (Woody), PowerPC
> Kernel: 2.4.23 (benh)
>
> I have also seen this behavior under Yellow Dog Linux 3.0, which I
> believe is also running a 2.4.x kernel. It looks as though my
> timebase frequency is synced with the decrementer frequency reported
> in the boot-up messages. I am currently sync'ing my system clock
> every five minutes with the time server at work, which not viable,
> long-term.
Yes, timebase and decrementer run at the same rate. How is the
kernel calibrating on your machine ? Using the device-tree or
the VIA ?
Ben.
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