Regarding your linux clock issue:
There was a rather lively discussion at forums.gentoo.org about drastic clock sync loss caused by KDE. I don't know if it has been resolved in the 3.1 line, but if you were running linux KDE, you might take a look at that as a cause for the linux clock sync problem.
/Paul
Michael Ferguson wrote:
Hi all,
....
On a probably-unrelated side note, when I was running Linux on
the same laptop (ducks), I had issues with the OS clock getting quickly
out of sync with the HW clock; typically I would loose five minutes or
more every hour. Although I haven't experienced the same thing with
FreeBSD, I wonder if there is just something odd about interrupt
handling or timing on the Inspiron 8000 line?
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