Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:46:25 +0100
From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Clock stopped

neil barnes wrote:

<snip>

 
> Paul - if things are waiting for an RTC clock tick, then it's likely the 
> bios battery died. If it's the software clock, then I dunno - 
> conflicting interrupt?


Oh shoot!  It's specifically the RTC clock.  The linux software clock 
goes on happily.

Isn't the BIOS battery the one that you have to dismantle the machine to 
get at?

 
> Mine has developed a habit of losing about three minutes a day when 
> running Icewm (I haven't investigated others yet) while the RTC keeps 
> time - so it catches up only if I shut down and restart...which is 
> rather sad as I tend just to hibernate it :)
> 
> Neil


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