>> clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( > > My inspiron 8200 was so poor at keeping time ntp refused to sync the > clock. I eventually found "tickadj 10270" made it close enough that > ntp would work.
On my Inspiron 4100, the hardware clock is much better than the system clock. And the system clock is much better when I do NOT use apm (you may try booting without). Unfortunately, up to know, I have not gotten much success with acpi instead if apm, but I keep trying :-) In the meantime, I use this cron entry: 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh start > /dev/null And in /etc/network/interfaces, I use these interface up scripts: up /etc/init.d/ntpdate start up /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh stop Harry
