[mythtv-users] Question on 8GB of RAM. Was: 32 bit or 64bit???

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Tue Jan 27 10:50:27 UTC 2009


Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> says:
> > That's odd.  I've got 2 AMD 64-bit systems at home at the moment,
> > one running CentOS 5 and the other Mythbuntu/Ubuntu 8.10, and
> > neither have this drifting clock issue.
> 
> Are you capturing closed captioning from the ivtv driver?

Francis' point is that ntpd is meant for exactly this sort of issue,
regardless of cause. You've mentioned ntp in the archive before, but
many people confuse ntpd, the daemon, with ntpdate, the
manually-set-clock-from-timeserver utility bundled with ntpd that
people often run from a crontab or startup script in lieu of running
ntpd.

(ntpd does not sync time if the clock is off by some huge amount--I
think 30 seconds--so I suppose it's possible that your ivtv issue
might not let you use ntpd to fix the drift, but if that's so that's a
huge [and bizarre] problem with the ivtv driver.)

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