From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTjMu-0007cf-S7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:56:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A710CE0508; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818B4E0508 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2094B645A9 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:56:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.052 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.052 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.453, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73SKih4A5Pb3 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D16643BA for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTjMf-0005eB-IH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:56:25 +0000 Received: from athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.171.189]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:56:25 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:56:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed? Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:56:31 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <49bf44f10901291843y461f506cj9d7dd90a9138578b@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10902010819u1a1e27e8y1b585ca946b4fa31@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090101) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10902010819u1a1e27e8y1b585ca946b4fa31@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6f0011f6-8e06-4082-84ad-b408ec4f4596 X-Archives-Hash: f2d1b8430fdd89cb468e5a868417c4d0 Grant wrote: >>> One of my systems needed Real Time Clock -> PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in >>> the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make >>> the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real >>> Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works >>> fine. Does anyone know how that works? >> It might have something to do with the "High Resolution Timer Support" >> option (in "Processor type and features".) Not sure though. > > Thank you but none of my systems seem to have that enabled. One thing I would try is examining the output of dmesg. Maybe something relevant shows up.