[time] Clock Stabilized with Kernel-Update

[Marco Tedaldi]

Hello

Maybe something for the FAQ.

I have an Computer here since last fall. An Athlon XP Barebone with an 
nForce2 Chipset.
It runs under Gentoo-Linux with Kernel 2.4.20 (now 2.4.28).
Since beginning the clock was waaay off. Even ntpd was not able to 
stabilize it. Last thing I did to help me out of trouble, was setting up 
a cron-job which called ntpdate every minute (to an internal, well 
syncronized host) so the clock was never more than some seconds off.

The clock-offset was even worse while playing DVDs and so on.

Yesterday I finaly found the time and updated the kernel to 2.4.28 (with 
almost the same config, expect that I can now use the kernel-drivers for 
network and sound from the nvidia-chip), and now it works perfectly!

It now works really stable even with maxpoll 12 (which i has reached now)

Conclusion: If your Clock is drifting like mad (ntpd told me, that it 
won't go over -500ppm!) undes Linux, try another kernel.

Bye

Marco