Re: clock messed up

 Hi Giuseppe,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:55:44 +0200
Giuseppe Ghib=C3=B2 <[email protected]> wrote:

| Anyone knows a way to fix clock problems which occurs into
| kernel 2.6.12-22mdksmp (x86-64)? Basically under
| motherboard MSI K8N Diamond, and MSI K8N Diamond plus
| (the same happens on three different machines so sound
| a problem of our kernel), the internal clock is not
| going to be right (and even trying to sincronize
| to an external source using NTP is not enough, since
| the drift happens anyway). The
| differences between internal clock and right clock
| goes after one day to 8-10 hours.
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| I tried to boot the machines specifying on both the option
| clock=3Dtsc in lilo.conf, but it's not enough. The error
| between internal clock and official time is always high.
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| Is there a way to fix this? And why ntp is not enough
| to keep the time in sync?

 You can try two boot options:

enable_timer_pin_1=3D1

 or

disable_timer_pin_1=3D1

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino