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#1 Re: Debian on a Thinkpad X61 Posted by Utumno (61.229.xx.xx) on Wed 2 Apr 2008 at 18:50 Another problem: system time was wrong (8 hours into the future). I thought that was because the system thought that hardware clock is set to GMT ( the installer doesn't ask about that anymore!) . I know how to correct this problem ( set variable 'UTC' to 'no' in /etc/default/rcS ) But it turns out that UTC was set to 'no', and the real problem was a borked 'rtc' driver: utumno:/home/leszek# hwclock --show select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out Fortunately it turns out one can make hwclock issue direct ISA commands, and that works: utumno:/home/leszek# hwclock --show --directisa Thu 03 Apr 2008 01:41:52 AM CST -0.104984 seconds Solution: edit /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh and /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and set 'HWCLOCKPARS' to '--directisa'

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