Re: [rtl] Problems with time and timer!

[yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu]

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 05:46:42PM -0400, cecil ogg wrote:
> Kurt Renauer wrote:
> > 

Cecil answered one question. The other one is:
> > 2. I used the timer related functions:
> > I used this timer functions within the program I described before. What I
> > did: ... rt_request_timer ... rt_set_timer... I wrote a timer handler that
> > toggles a LPT Bit ... etc. ...
> > OK! the timer worked, but the periodic tasks did not run?!
> > Why not?

Because you stole the timer interrupt from the scheduler. You should use
the RTC (cmos clock) for this. Use request_rtIRQ for the RTC.



> 
> I can't answer this without looking at your source code.  
> 
> Cecil Ogg
> 
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