Re: 2.4.21-ben2 issues: RTC, Thermal and RTAS

[Soeren Sonnenburg <debianppc-ml@nn7.de>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:14, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:18, J. Javier Maestro wrote: 
> > 
> > I just wanted to know if setting this:
> > 
> > # CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set
> > CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
> > # CONFIG_RTC is not set
> > 
> > is sufficient to get the RTC running properly... 
> 
> Yes, either CONFIG_PPC_RTC or CONFIG_GEN_RTC should work.
> 
> > mplayer is buggin me about RTC, and I have synchronization problems 
> > when watchign movies because of this (I suspect):
> > 
> > Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
> > Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
> > Using usleep() timing
> 
> This may work with CONFIG_GEN_RTC, but frankly xine seems to deal more
> gracefully with 'unusual' environments in my experience, instead of
> telling me my system was broken for this or that reason...

Well I cannot get the example RTC source from
linux/Documentation/rtc.txt running when these options are turned on. So
I assume mplayer is right: It is not working.

Soeren.