Subject: Re: Minor issues with YDL...
From: Andy Green (agreen1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 11:12:02 MDT
Thanks for the replies.
The date seems to be working now. It stays the same, but the time is still
not consistent. I don't think that it's the battery. While in Mac OS, the
time and date are accurate every time. My video settings in Linux are exactly
the same as those in MacOS. Except Linux will not work at 32 bit color. I
tried using the xvidtune app that someone recommended to expand my screen to
consume all the monitors screen real estaste, but that application does not
do an accurate resize.
Either way my video settings are enver remembered. Everytime I login, I have
to use Xconfigurator in terminal mode to reset the video settings. Is this
the way it's supposed to be? I have heard some suggestions on how to solve
the date and time issue but nothing on the video problem.
Thanks again,
Andy
On Monday 17 September 2001 09:53, you wrote:
> I had a similar problem with the date being reset every time I powered
> up too. My problem was in the kernel. Make sure you have the right
> settings in your kernel configuration. Try a precompiled one and see
> how it behaves. (of course this is assuming that you may have compiled
> your own kernel).
>
> robert m
>
> On 17 Sep 2001 10:44:23 -0400, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ken Schweigert wrote:
> > >I may be a little off-base here, but when you said date and time are
> > >reset, the first thing that came to my mind was OpenFirmware. If I
> > >remember correctly, both date and time and video settings are pulled
> > >from OF. You might want to try booting into MacOS and setting your date
> > >and video there and then reboot into linux.
> >
> > Booting into MacOS shouldn't be necessary. To set the hardware clock,
> > use the 'clock' command (man clock). To set the system clock, use the
> > 'date' command (man date).
> >
> > If the date keeps on getting set back to Jan 01, 1904, every time you
> > power up, this is likely due to a dead battery on your motherboard. You
> > can buy a replacement at RadioScrap for about $20 CND.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> >
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