From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 12:06:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA14272 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA14260 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from r2d2.sci.fi (r2d2.sci.fi [194.215.80.6]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id MAA27761 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sci.fi (vuori@borg [194.215.80.5]) by r2d2.sci.fi (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA18511; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:55:24 +0300 Received: (vuori@localhost) by sci.fi (8.6.12/8.6.4) id VAA29496; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:55:23 +0300 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 21:55:22 +0300 (EET DST) From: Valtteri Vuorikoski X-Sender: vuori@borg To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMOS checksum brokedness and turbo being switched off In-Reply-To: <199605151801.LAA14978@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: Organization: People's Front Against WWW MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Garrett Wollman made it so you could touch a file in /etc and fix it > so it would not mess with the CMOS (blowing the time information is > probably what kills your checksum and blowing the DST information > is probably what kills the turbo mode). /etc/wall_cmos_clock ? Putting that there doesn't seem to have an effect. > FYI: it's a bad design that steals clock bits from the CMOS to use in > software modes; your motherboard is violating the specs. It's by Nokia, that's what they're all about (-; The BIOS copyright is from 1991. -- 'Good-bye and hello, as always'