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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#CED1E1" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Debian as well as everyone else  2.6.18-5</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Zaptel is branch/1.4 latest.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">The issue is not with Zaptel though...IMHO.  If you look at /proc/driver/rtc, I find:</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">rtc_time : 14:34:27</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">rtc_date : 2007-11-12</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">rtc_epoch : 1900</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">alarm : 16:30:31</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">DST_enable : no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">BCD : yes</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">24hr : yes</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">square_wave : no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">alarm_IRQ : no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">update_IRQ : no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">periodic_IRQ : no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">periodic_freq : 1024</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:9pt;">batt_status : okay</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">If you notice, there is no periodic_IRQ.  That is the issue.  To me (and the kernels reported here) it is a Debian kernel problem.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">If I turn off ACPI, Zaptel works, but the box performance is awful because other things, which depend on ACPI do not have interrupts.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">I have read some places that if you have the Hard Drive Suppend in the BIOS enabled, you will get this situation.  However, I would check the /proc/driver/rtc to see that you have periodic_IRQ.<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:59:37PM -0600, Tony Plack wrote:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> The thing is that this works, but....</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> The performance of the box becomes really bad.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> It seems that the problem, at least in my case is that the HPET</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> timer from the cpu does not get an IRQ for the RTC.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Does anyone else have a solution for this issue where the RTC</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> does not get an interrupt when HPET is turned on?</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> What kerenl version? What version of Zaptel?</SPAN></div>
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