On Fri, 24 Sep, 1999 à 09:00:25AM +0000, Jason Christensen wrote: > Colin, > > I think that you may be right. Now that I think about it, the problem only > seems > to occur after linux has been running for a long period of time without a > logon > (i.e. overnight). I think I have the BIOS configured to kick into sleep mode > after a certain time of inactivity. This would make sense as when the system > slows down the timer interrupt servicing would occur less frequently. I > couldn't, > however, find a refence to this problem in the Battery Power Mini-HOWTO at > www.linux.org. > I'll try turning off BIOS power management overnight tonight and let you know > what happens. BTW, my kernel is not compiled with power management support, > perhaps if I had, this problem wouldn't have occurred? Anyone know for sure? > I do think that the problem would not occurs if you enable APM in the kernel because with APM enabled, system time (i.e. time maintained by the kernel) is resetted after a RESUME. If you do not want to enable APM in the kernel, a quick fix would be to comment the line:
hwclock --systohc $GMT in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh My decision would be to enable APM unless you have specific problems with it. > Thanks for all your help, You're welcome. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
