[asterisk-users] Re: Re: Re: TE420P/TE415P?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote:
> On 7/31/06, Julio Arruda <jarruda-asterisk at jarruda.com> wrote:
> >Matt Florell wrote:
> >> Yes, that is very confusing :)
> >>
> >> Is there no way to throw a timer chip in there(I suppose it's way too
> >> late to put that suggestion forward now)?
> >
> >Curiosity, isn't the timer from the 2.6 kernel 'good enough' for
> >Asterisk purposes nowadays ?
> >Or there is a constraint using 2.6+ztdummy that is not obvious (to me at
> >least :-)) ?
> 
> It can be a very confusing set of steps to get ztdummy installed
> properly depending on the version of 2.6 kernel that you are using,
> and it is usually not as accurate of a timer as a zaptel hardware
> timer is.

ztdummy ialso workss with older 2.6 kernels without USE_RTC .

ztdummy's USE_RTC mode is is not exactly perfect, as it simply drops a
tick 24 out of every 1024 ticks.

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