Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 Joel Klecker wrote: AFAIK, Mac OS *does* keep the clock in UTC. Perhaps only since 8.x though. I have my Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC system set to use UTC and Mac OS is never confused about the clock, so it must grok UTC. This is certainly not what i have found, I use macos 8.6, no m

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Renaud Dreyer
Hmmm... I have to look into this further! That's what I thought too when I installed Debian on my PowerMac, so I set the clock to UTC... But then I noticed time was set 8 hours in the past (I'm in the Western US), so I assumed MacOS kept the clok in local time. Maybe something in the Date&Time Con

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Joel Klecker
At 01:27 -0800 2000-01-27, Renaud Dreyer wrote: >As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think >the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS >say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell >Debian the hardware clock is set to

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >seriously though i was having all kinds of wacky trouble with the >clock under linux until i set the hardware clock to GMT and >configured linux accordingly.. > >the only thing I am using macos for at the moment is mail which will

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote: As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell Debian the hardware clock is set to local time. Unl

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 C.M. Connelly wrote: I did notice an eight hour clock skew the last time I spent any significant time in MacOS before coming back to Linux (``coincidentally'', I'm in the Pacific Time Zone, eight hours behind GMT). I can't recall now if I made a permanent fix to that problem or if

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Renaud Dreyer
> > Renaud, > > I had that problem, too. (*Exactly* that problem.) It turned out > that my housemate had written a script (in /etc/rc.boot) to set > the clock properly back when we first installed the system (when > hwclock was completely broken on the PowerPC), and that script was > no longer

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread C.M. Connelly
Renaud, I had that problem, too. (*Exactly* that problem.) It turned out that my housemate had written a script (in /etc/rc.boot) to set the clock properly back when we first installed the system (when hwclock was completely broken on the PowerPC), and that script was no longer working properly

clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Renaud Dreyer
I think I tracked down the reason why I keep getting the message: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep modprobe: insmod * failed when booting. Before rebooting, I ran depmod -a to make sure that /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep was more recent than /etc/modules.