Re: 164sx and clock weirdness?
Paul English (tallpaul@mathworks.com)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:02:03 -0500 (EST)
> > I just got a 164sx recently, and I've noticed some real weirdness with the
> > clock. It seems the computer clock gains two seconds for every real
> > second that passes. This happens under NT or linux 2.1.89. Sometimes
> > when I cold boot into 2.0.30, it goes at the normal speed, but then
> > something comes along and makes it run at double speed again.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen anything like this? Is my board hosed? Any help
> > would be appreciated.
>
> Ayup. My box had[has?] same problem, it happened about once a week and
> lasted for 1-2 days. Real freaky. I've got a replacement motherboard from
> my vendor(polywell), put it in 2 days ago...I'll know if it fixed the
> problem in a week or two, I guess.
>
There has been some extensive discussion about this on the
comp.os.linux.alpha newsgroup. The recommended fix is to update the
version of /sbin/clock with a new one from
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha
and if that doesn't totally fix it, update the version of MILO, maybe to a
'test' version even.
Paul