[Wylug-help] Nforce2 board with BAD clock drift

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 lists at mungewell.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> We have a Nforce2/Athlon motherboard here running Debian which is
> gaining time at an alarming rate, ~20 sec per hour. Kernel 2.4.22.
>
> Unfortunately this is more than ntp can cope with. :-(

How's ntp failing?  Is it just that it quits as the difference becomes too
much?

What about with -g?  Does it still fail?

jh

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