Various Weirdness

[David G. Miller]

"Dave Cross" <davorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/24/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>   
>> > "Dave Cross" <davorg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>>     
>>> > > Three strange things that have recently started happening on my Dell
>>> > > 5100 running FC6.
>>> > >
>>> > > 1/ The clock loses time. In about an hour of elapsed time, the clock
>>> > > moves on thirty minutes.
>>>       
>> > I can't address the other two problems but by any chance is this a 64
>> > bit system?  There was a similar problem (clock ran precisely twice as
>> > fast) back in the FC4 days.  Do some googling for you chipset and
>> > clock.  Actually, a slow running clock could also be causing your video
>> > weirdness.
>>     
>
> The system has two Intel Pentium 4 CPUs. /etc/cpuinfo reports them both as:
>
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave...
I was thinking more along the lines of looking at what comes back for 
the following Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+%22clock+runs+slow%22+%22pentium+4%22&btnG=Search

You may do better substituting your chipset or your motherboard for 
"pentium 4" in the search terms.  The problem I alluded to in my 
previous posting was specific to the Radeon 200M chipset.

Cheers,
Dave

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