On 24 Dec 2002, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a weird problem with Red Hat 8 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D
> laptop.
>
> I live in France so I sat up the clock to use Paris timezone. At first,
> it worked well but after a few days, I restarted my computer and saw
> that the time was 1 hour under the correct one. So I tried to set it
> back by right clicking on the clock applet in GNOME and choosing adjust
> time and date. I changed the time and closed the config tool.
>
> After a few seconds, the time was corrected but I couldn't drag windows
> anymore ! I could click on anything but couldn't _move_ anything... I
> have an ATI Radeon Mobility on this laptop (without DRI). I restarted
> XFree and I could move windows again.
Setting the clock back wreaks some havoc with XFree86. There is a fix in
the works which you can test by installing the appropriate XFree86 RPMs
from people.redhat.com/mharris/testing. See Bugzilla #63509.
> After a reboot, I noticed the clock was badly configured again. I
> restarted the laptop and went to BIOS where I re-configured the time
> correctly. This time, the clok was correct in RedHat. But after about 2
> weeks, the problem happened again (1-hour-early time and XFree bug after
> re-configuring time). I've been running RedHat 8 for months now and I
> always have to re-configure my clock in the BIOS from time to time.
>
> I read somthing on google about someone having a problem with RTC on his
> laptop when his laptop gets idled... I don't know if my problem is
> related to it though.
Before you decid if it's a bug, check to make sure that your time zone is
set correctly, and that the UTC setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock matches
the way you actually have your hardware clock set. Note that if you don't
run certain *other* OS's with brain-damaged clock managers, the best bet
is to set your hwclock to UTC. That way changes between daylight and
standard time can't bite you.
Also, check /etc/sysconfig/ampd and play with the CLOCK_SYNC setting.
> NB: I have used Windows on this laptop too and the clock worked great
> before I installed RedHat.
Ah, yes, one of those *other* OS's.
>
> Thanks by advance.
>
>
>
>
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