[ltp] Re: System clock wrong on resume from ACPI suspend in recent FC3 update

[Michael Perry]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:55:32PM -0500, Matt Graham wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 12:16, after a long battle with technology, 
> Michael Perry wrote:
> [snip]
> > with the 2.6.10 kernel that clock drift happens all too regularly. 
> > Like this one...  I suspend my laptop and its 11:00pm according to
> > the wm dockapp I use. When the laptop resumes from apm suspend the 
> > next morning at 730am the time [displayed] is something like 420am
> 
> 4:20am?  Maybe your kernel is stoned :-) .  I noticed this problem this 
> morning; 2.6.10, Thinkpad A22p: APM suspend at 8:30am, APM wakeup at 
> 8:55am, time displayed = 9:35am.  Hardware clock may have been OK, but 
> I didn't check that.
> 
> > If I boot a 2.6.9 kernel this never happens.  On my T23 running acpi
> > this does not happen at all. I checked on Yahoo egroups' dell laptop 
> > group and others are reporting some pretty unusual issues with 2.6.10 
> > and apm. 
> 
> Just great.  I need APM (or ACPI, whichever) to work reliably on my 
> A22p.  I may have to go back to 2.4.28--whee!
> 
> > Other wierdness on 2.6.10 is that often the X server locks the system
> > down hard 
> 
> You said you don't have a Thinkpad, so we won't really be able to 
> diagnose anything on this mailing list.  Post to comp.os.linux.portable 
> or something; there are a few helpful people there.
> 
> > I tend to think something is kinda wonky with 2.6.10.
> 
> The 2.4 series was wonky until 2.4.10.  I avoided the early 2.6 releases 
> so I could avoid the general pitfalls of using not-fully-debugged 
> kernels.  Now 2.6.10 has bugs, since the kernel is software, and All 
> Software Sucks.  ARGH.  Oh well, now that I know about the APM 
> problems, it's not going to be difficult to take corrective action.
> 

I do have a thinkpad.   I have a T23 running acpi here with 2.6.10 and I
also have a dell inspiron 4100 with apm.

Sorry for the bit o confusion there :)

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