Re: Re: clock messed up

Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
>  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.
> |=20
> | 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.
> |=20
> | 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
>
>  =20


If IRC nVidia posted a fix for the timer problems they had that none of=20
the then known workarounds not fixed completely...
I'll try to dig it up and see...

--
Thomas