Re: Re: clock messed up

Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
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>>  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.
>> | | 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.
>> | | 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
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> If IRC nVidia posted a fix for the timer problems they had that none of=
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> the then known workarounds not fixed completely...
> I'll try to dig it up and see...
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When you mention nVidia, you mean chipset (e.g. NForce4) or video
card?

Bye
Giuseppe.