Re: Time is runnign too fast
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:30, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 19:23, Ron Jr wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:05, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have a problem on my laptop. Almost every time its running on
> > > batteries the time runs twice or more as fast as it should. It almost
> > > everytime happens if i plug AC on while its running... Im sure thats a
> > > stepping problem (laptops runns at higher freq with ac plugged in). Is
> > > there a way to fix this. Linux has to know when the CPU stepps to
> > > recalculate the time. I use kernel 2.6.0-test8 with SID.
> >
> > I guess that rebooting the PC would drain too much battery?
> >
> Dont understand your answer... The laptups time often runs too fast if it
> starts in battery mode (and no ac will be pugged in).
Oh, sorry. When I read "Linux has to know when the CPU stepps to
recalculate the time", I thought you meant that the kernel didn't
know that the frequency had changed while running.
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