[mythtv-users] Carbon Footprint

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/29/2013 03:39 PM, Roger Siddons wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:16:12 +0100, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>
> If you put all of your commands in a file, and make the file executable,
> then use: sudo ./someTestFile.sh, the commands will work (they do for me.)
>
> Don't put the sudo in front of the commands in the file.
>
> Also, there are/were some boards that needed to have hpet disabled.
>
> For *buntu, this is done in /etc/default/grub and look for a line like:
>
>     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="**quiet splash"
>
> and change it to:
>
>     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="**quiet splash hpet=disabled"
>
> Then you must do: sudo update grub and reboot the machine in order
> for it to take affect. Truthfully, I still do this and don't know
> if newer kernels have fixed the bug that required it.
>
> I know I *had* to do this in the past in order to have this work.
> It's documented on the Wiki (near the bottom if I recall.)
>
> --
> Bill
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I disabled the "hpet" and corrected some other inappropriate html
translations in the "turn off hwclock script" entered the test commands in
the "sudo sh -c" method, with no complaint from the terminal, but still
IRQ=no; does this mean I need to be brave and try the commands as "root"?

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ cat /proc/driver/rtc
rtc_time : 09:38:10
rtc_date : 2013-08-30
alrm_time : 09:42:50
alrm_date : 2013-08-30
alarm_IRQ : no
alrm_pending : no
  //snip//

Daryl
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