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From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how?
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:03:17
Message-Id: 4377678.WRVoGkbejG@bluering
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Makeing /dev/rtc1 accessible as soon as possible - how? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 06:04:13 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > There are two RTCs in my system:
5 > /dev/rtc0 and /dev/rtc1
6 >
7 > rtc0 is not powered by a battery and forgets time/date
8 > with system shutdown and rtc1 is a I2C-rtc (DS3231) which
9 > is powered by a battery. It is extremly accurate in comparison
10 > with rtc0.
11 >
12 > rtc0 is accessible with system boot - rtc1 is not (current state).
13
14
15 I know this might be obvious, but just in case:
16
17 Have you checked to see if the dud RTC can be disabled in the BIOS?
18
19 Or completely remove its drivers from the kernel?
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22 --
23 Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/
24 Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first:
25 http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

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