changeset 19969:96b83e47c885

Also mention sysctl for adjusting RTC settings.
author diego
date Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:01:07 +0000
parents 3f5b5c24ce73
children b9aebe023106
files DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	Sun Sep 24 16:59:15 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	Sun Sep 24 17:01:07 2006 +0000
@@ -570,9 +570,14 @@
   option enables it, but a properly set up kernel is required.
   If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC
   frequency for normal users through the <systemitem class="systemname">/proc
-  </systemitem> filesystem. Use this command to
+  </systemitem> filesystem. Use one of the following two commands to
   enable RTC for normal users:
   <screen>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</screen>
+  <screen>sysctl dev/rtc/max-user-freq=1024</screen>
+  You can make this setting permanent by adding the latter to
+  <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.
+  </para>
+  <para>
    You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
    The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
    interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the