On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Karsten Rothemund wrote: [snip] > over questions), but now I have problems with the keyboard and the > clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( [snip] > But the more anoying problem is the keyboard: it swallows some letters > from time to time (around 6 letters when writing about 3 sentences).
What does /proc/interrupts say? Is there any useful (related) info in dmesg, or /var/log/syslog? > And of course even more interesting: is there some possibllity to cure > this "desease"[1]. Maybe some kernel options to set[2]. I would try to > downgrade the BIOS again (but this seems to be not so easy, as the Check the BIOS settings: there may be something you can set in there: I don't know if your machine does this, but there's a Dell laptop here that can actually enter and exit the BIOS _while the OS is running_ with Fn-F1. Which is convenient, if a little scary and wrong sounding. > [2] Kernel is 2.4.20. The config file is on > http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/Configs/Kernel-Config.I8100 > Sorry, but the rest of the site is mostly in german, the english part > is very "work in progress". On an unrelated note, I see you _aren't_ storing UTC in your hardware clock: It's generally a sensible thing to keep your hardware clock set to UTC (GMT) unless you need to use an OS that is horribly broken wrt to timekeeping. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
