[debian-non-standard] FSG3 debian installation

Benoit Schneider ton.ami.totoro at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 16:46:36 CEST 2008


Thanks, but freecom answer me by a warranty return. So it's what I'm 
going to do.
Thanks for your help ;)
Benoit

Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit :
> Benoit Schneider schrieb:
>> Thanks for your answer I think I will send it the warranty :s I don't 
>> want to open it.
>> I hope to see you when is back ;)
>
> There is one more thing which could break: the battery keeping real 
> time clock (RTC). I saw it happen several times on FSG.
>
> FSG-3 has a isl1208 RTC chip. If it ever looses power, the clock 
> doesn't start to tick again; it has to be set first.
>
> By default, Debian starts hwclock command which reads hardware clock 
> time and sets system time from it.
>
> Unfortunately, the current implementation of hwclock found in Debian 
> Etch has a serious flaw:
> 1) it tries to read from the RTC before it writes to it,
> 2) if it can't read from RTC, it will repeat the process 1000000 times 
> (yes, one million times)
>
> Because of 2), FSG may seem unbootable (after about 24 hours, it 
> continues booting). So if the USB-stick blinks a bit when you power on 
> the FSG, it means that perhaps your RTC is out of date.
>
> The easiest "fix" would be to rename "hwclock" command, so that it is 
> not started (i.e., mv /sbin/hwclock /sbin/hwclock.orig).
>
> You can download a fixed version of hwclock as a .deb package here 
> (synnet-hwclock):
>
> http://www1.wpkg.org/fsg-3-debian/
>
> This hwclock was compiled from the current git of util-linux-ng.
>
>
> If the USB stick doesn't blink at all, than it's perhaps something else.
>
>
>




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