[Gllug] Fedora/Dell Clock Problems

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Fri Mar 30 05:07:00 UTC 2007


Nix wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2007, Dave Cross verbalised:
>> About a week ago the clock started to lose time badly. It seems to be
>> running at about half speed (maybe a bit less).
> 
> Is ACPI enabled? This is a classic symptom of enabling ACPI on some
> platforms. You could try disabling it but that might break half your
> hardware... :/

Having checked, ACPI was on. But now it isn't and the problem hasn't 
gone away.

My next plan is to boot the system with a Live CD of some other 
distribution. That should determine whether or not the problem is called 
by some recent Fedora update.

But I'll still be grateful for any other suggestions.

Dave...
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