slow clock on Dell I8k1

[Hein Roehrig <hein@acm.org>]

Hello *,

on my Dell Inspiron 8100 the clock loses several minutes per hour 
--- so much in fact that ntp doesn't work properly. I tried to find 
out whether something in my (pretty much standard woody) setup 
interferes with the clock, but haven't found anything (in 
particular, hwclock --adjust is *not* called.)

Any hints? Also, I have not yet figured out how to make ntpd more 
lenient about a bad local clock. If anybody knows from the top of 
their head how to get rid of the "synchronization lost" messages, I 
would be grateful for a hint.

Thanks,
Hein