I know a problem like this exists on Thinkpads -- including mine! As a 'fix' I just installed the ntpdate package, and arranged for it to be called everytime I went into root mode.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jeff wrote: > My laptop, a Dell Latitude C610 running Sarge, has been losing time to > the tune of about 15-20 minutes every 12 hours. > > I found a thread that suggested the Motherboard battery, and I may > change that later. > > Also in that thread was a suggestion by Rob Weir to check the > interupts on the system, and that this may cause this problem. I > checked using procinfo -n1 and can see that irq 0 "timer" has the > highest interupt count and it's incrementing at a rate of 100 per > second. > > Does anyone have any insite into this? Rob had indicated that if an > irq was getting a lot of interupts, that could effect the time. > > thanks, > jc > > -- > Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer > Diggin' Debian Admin and User > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
