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From: David Gurvich <david.gurvich@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:12:32
Message-Id: 200603272312.13562.david.gurvich@verizon.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] Hwclock error by "Flisk ."
1 I would suggest seeing what modules are loaded by the CD. As it happens, my
2 current computer is a dual-G4 almost identical to the one described. I'll
3 attach my .config to this message.
4
5 On Sunday 26 March 2006 3:11 pm, Flisk . wrote:
6 > Hi folks,
7 > Here where I work we received a G4 computer and I started to install a
8 > Gentoo 2006.0. The computer is a G4 2 CPU's 512MB of memory 2 HD, I started
9 > to install Gentoo 2006.0 from stage 1 and everything gone well. I installed
10 > with cpu flag as G4 and O2.
11 > But when the computer restarted a problem appeared with hwclock, when I
12 > execute the hwclock an error appear. The error is something like: "select()
13 > to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out" and the date in Linux stay
14 > 1970, the bios time is correctly because when I boot the Gento CD the
15 > hwclock work perfectly. I already recompiled the kernel with many options
16 > but nothing solve the problem.
17 > I believe that the problem is with some kernel option that I forgot or
18 > some patch, because in the Gentoo CD the hwclock works perfectly. What
19 > kernel option or patch can be solve the problem? Hints?
20 > Best regards.
21 >
22 > ------------------------
23 > Fernando Simon
24 > Brazil
25 > ------------------------
26
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