Re: debian3 amiga - probs
On 07-Oct-02, you wrote:
> At 21:21 10/5/2002, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:40:53AM +0100, Aled wrote:
>>> Hi, just installed debian on my amiga, have a couple of problems with
>> it-
>>>
>>> 1. for some reason under linux the date is set as year 1902, the time
>> and
>>> month/day are correct but the year is 100 years out. no idea how this
>>> happend cos i thought linux dates only went back to 1970
>>
>> I think I am seeing something similar. There was a Y2K bug in the date
>> handling on amiga, not sure if the bug was in AmigaOS, Linux-m68k
>> (kernel), hwclock, or all three of them. And it seems nobody really fixed
>> it, although somethings seems to have changed recently. If you have time
>> to spare, you are welcom to hunt it down.
>
> Battery backup up clock chip can only handle 2 digits. kernel was fixed
> for A2000, but not for A3000/A4000. Patch is trivial, I can dig in my
> archives if anyone want to know details. I can't test on A3000/4000.
>
> Erik
>
>
i know the millenium bug exists in the amiga kickstart , and was fixed in
amigaOS 3.9. but i wouldnt have thought this would affect the time under
linux. however its fine now after i set the date manually in linux, and the
date is still correct under amigaOS.
The only problem now is with Xwindows 4 - i have a keymap for the console
but under X i only have a keymap for the american keyboard layout, anyone
know where i can get a UK one?
Also the docs for the clgen driver mention various fd0xxx files which should
exist in /dev for various video modes but none exist (only fb0 - 800x600).
i have tried to create them using fbset but without much joy, if anybody
has these files and could send them to me i would appreciate it as i can
only run X in 640x400 or 800x600 at the moment even though my gfx card and
monitor should be capable of running much higher resolutions
cheers
Al.
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