> In my previous post, I thought this had something to do with
> suspend/resume. But that is simply because on my Inspiron 8200, when I
> come back from a suspend, my clock is wrong by a couple of hours (even
> if I suspend only for 5 seconds). APM resets the clock, and XFree is hosed.
>
> Can anybody else reproduce this problem? Is it Linux specific?
There has been some discussion on the topic at :
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63509
This problem appears when the clock jumps forward and backward.
It looks like xevents are stuck with the future date until the
wall clock catches up.
With laptops, the problem may appear if your internal clock isn't set up
to GMT (which may be the case if you have a dual boot with windows),
because when resuming from APM, for a short while, the hwclock is set to
gmt until the apmcontinue script fixes it (at least in RH7.3).
The link provides a small script that fixes the problem with APM
(basicaly it suspends the XServer prior to going IDLE with SIGSTOP
and resumes it with SIGCONT after the clock has been correctly setup,
so the Xserver and related applications don't get confused since they
don't notice the change of time).
Pedro
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