Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:03:21 +0000 | From | Nick Craig-Wood <> | Subject | Re: time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode |
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:50:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This isn't fixing the root cause of the problem which is interactions > > between the BIOS power management and the kernel I believe, but it > > does fix the problem and is really quite cheap so perhaps might be > > do_gettimeofday is still going to give strange results - and consider > the case where you boot slow and speed up...
This isn't a perfect fix certainly. Stopping time going backwards stops the major application breakage though.
> If you can give me the DMI strings for the affected boxes I can add > them to the DMi tables (see ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/DMI*)
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