On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:05, Bill Edwards wrote: > My system clock is losing more than one minute out of every five > minutes. Here are my system details: > > Hardware: Powerbook G4 667 MHz > Debian: 3.0r2 (Woody), PowerPC > Kernel: 2.4.23 (benh) > > I have also seen this behavior under Yellow Dog Linux 3.0, which I > believe is also running a 2.4.x kernel. It looks as though my > timebase frequency is synced with the decrementer frequency reported > in the boot-up messages. I am currently sync'ing my system clock > every five minutes with the time server at work, which not viable, > long-term.
Yes, timebase and decrementer run at the same rate. How is the kernel calibrating on your machine ? Using the device-tree or the VIA ? Ben.
