I will try with just loading SMSQE and nothing else
which should eliminate the first two but for what its
worth booting into Linux has no problems with the clock.

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David Gilham
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The universe is a queer place





--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

From: Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] clock adrift in SMSQE
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:11:02 +0100

 David Gilham wrote:
> If I boot into SMSQE and let the system run for a reasonable
> time printing date$ seems to indicate that the clock is losing seconds at
> an large rate ,apparently 1 minute per hour. This was so whether I
> typed Prot_date 1 or prot_date 0 immediatly after a normal boot.
> If I do a soft reset the time display and hence the clock reverts
> to a more or less accurate value. I am baffled by this.

At least this is easily explained: the RTC is read once on boot (which
should be fairly accurate), but afterwards the time is updated by the
50Hz frame interrupt. At first thought I see 3 possible causes:
- something in your system is messing with the clock system variable
  value (unlikely, but can easily be checked by using a clean boot)
- something in your system is disabling the interrupts for an extended
  period of time (possible, but should again be eliminated by a clean boot)
- the frame interrupt is not working correctly because there is a
  hardware problem.

Marcel

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