[ntp:questions] ntp version 4.2.7p257-o

Mark C. Stephens marks at non-stop.com.au
Mon Feb 20 02:57:14 UTC 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hart [mailto:hart at ntp.org]
> Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 1:22 PM
> To: Mark C. Stephens
> Cc: questions at lists.ntp.org
> Subject: Re: ntp version 4.2.7p257-o
> 
> Thanks for pointing out the nodebug/debug confusion for the p257 binaries
> for Windows.  I've renamed the .zips to repair.
> 
> I suspect the rest of your problem will be fixed soon once a release comes
> out that has Juergen Perlinger's improved emulation of line discipline serial
> input in the Windows port of ntpd.  In the meantime, you can potentially
> work around it by cranking your serial line rate to the minimum 4800 bps,
> which may require configuring the GPS to emit fewer sentences each
> second.

[Mark C. Stephens] 

Unfortunately, this RX is locked at 9600, no way (I have discovered) to change baud rate (do we stall call it that?!)

> 
> As for ownership of the NMEA driver, quite a number of us have had our
> fingers in it, including Juergen Perlinger, Hal Murray, Venu Gopal, Danny
> Mayer, myself, and others whose names don't appear in commits because
> they submitted patches integrated by Harlan or someone else.

[Mark C. Stephens] 
Just curious which refclock driver it was, having never seen the line drawing characters popping up in the debug output before.  :)
By the way, you are all geniuses.

> 
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart

[Mark C. Stephens] 
Thanks Dave, Cheers :)

> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:52, Mark C. Stephens <marks at non-
> stop.com.au> wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> >
> > Astounding, the PPS tally came on with this version but only with the debug
> version and only for 2 short times of about a minute each.
> >
> > That is the first time I have seen the PPS tally under windows and although
> only on and off for a short period I am very happy we have progress!
> >
> > Unfortunately, the PPS tally won't come back, no matter what I do, The
> > same feed and config works flawlessly on ntpd - NTP daemon program -
> > Ver. 4.2.7p256 (FreeBSD)
> >
> > Just a heads up: On the FTP, ntp-4.2.7p257-win-x86-debug-bin.zip contains
> the non-debug version and ntp-4.2.7p257-win-x86-bin.zip contains the
> debug version.
> >
> > Also with –D2 there are, for what it looks like to me, garbage chars on the
> debug output:
> >
> > refclock_gtlin: fd 5 time 3538687955.517997 timecode 0
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> >
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠░ì└
> > refclock_gtlin: fd 5 time 3538687956.008909 timecode 71
> > $GPGGA,005237,3345.9174,S,15105.4586,E,
> > 0.5,M,,
> > GPS_NMEA(1) gpsread: 71
> > '$GPGGA,005237,3345.9174,S,15105.4586,E,0,07,00.38,000090.0,M,0020.5,M
> > ,
> > refclock_gtlin: fd 5 time 3538687956.008909 timecode 0
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> >
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠░ì└
> > refclock_gtlin: fd 5 time 3538687956.518031 timecode 31
> > $GPZDA,005237,20,02,2012,+00,00
> > GPS_NMEA(1) gpsread: 31 '$GPZDA,005237,20,02,2012,+00,00'
> > GPS_NMEA(1) processing 31 bytes, timecode
> '$GPZDA,005237,20,02,2012,+00,00'
> > GPS_NMEA(1) effective timecode: 2012-02-20 00:52:37
> > GPS_NMEA(1) using '$GPZDA,005237,20,02,2012,+00,00'
> > GPS_NMEA(1) PPS_RELATE_NONE
> > refclock_gtlin: fd 5 time 3538687956.518031 timecode 0
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> >
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
> > ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠░ì└
> >
> > Is this Hal’s driver?
> >
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >


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