[vdr] Re: 1.1.33 and black screen

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>Jan Ekholm wrote:

>>> Maybe VDR or the drivers don't like that the system clock changes? I
>>> noticed from the log that I always do a "rdate" to set the system clock
>>> early in the morning, so it *may* have drifted seconds and even minutes on
>>> a bad motherboard. Could this cause a blackout?
>>
>>At least for VDR I'm pretty sure that a change of the system clock shouldn't
>>have such effects.
> 
> Yeah, that's what I thought too, but it's one of the few things the
> machine actually does except run VDR. :)

It's always recommended to use ntpd instead of rdate, because a clock
jumping *backwards* is always asking for trouble (though maybe not with
VDR). ntpd will slowly adjust your clock by slowing it down or speeding
it up a bit.

Cheers,
Juri



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