On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:35:13 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:14:00 Alan Corey wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:43:38 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > These things don't have a clock, so they use fake-hwclock, so I > > > turned on ntp.conf logging and that looks like its doing well. But > > > since its not pestering the level one servers, just debians, I > > > left that be. The diff is likely measured in micro-seconds. > > > > Actually the Rock64 does have a hardware clock, there's just no > > battery so it's not useful. In the schematics somewhere it shows > > how to hook a single lithium cell up. > > Presumably the usual cr2032? I could more than likely extract a carrier from an old mobo.
> > See dmesg | grep rtc > > > > If you were using it portable or off-grid that would be important. > > > > I haven't built a Linux kernel in 10 years or so, used to do it > > routinely in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Did it once in Linux because the > > default one at the time wouldn't use more than 2 GB of RAM or > > something. That was i386. > > > > My locale stuff didn't change until I'd rebooted, now it shows: > > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > LANGUAGE= > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ALL= > > > > I've tried setting parts manually, never seems to work. > > But I have to go to the thing to reboot it, some security knucklehead > has decided it doesn't fully boot until user 1000 is logged in from > its own keyboard. Even then X needing stuff is not available from an > ssh login. That I think might be related to the fact that user 1000 is > hard coded into the install, which IMO is a huge mistake. I've tried > to change that on 2 of these little credit card things, but thats > impossible to do correctly so everything just works. So I have to put > up with the username miss-match, and goto its own keyboard to run > anything that needs X. That sort of stuff is usually found on the > ground behind the male of the bovine specie. And I'm getting less and > less inclined to stfu about it. Surely this first user can be created > at first boot after writing a new image to the sd card it boots from? > > Can I make an alias on this machine so user pi or user rock64=gene as > far as this X accepting the output of an ssh -Y pi@picnc and/or an ssh > -Y rock64@rock64 for instance? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
