Re: Various Weirdness

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:31 +0000, Dave Cross 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.
> 
> 2/ NetworkManager has started to claim that it has successfully
> connected to a wired network. This is weird as the computer isn't
> connected to a wired network. All network access is through a PCI
> wireless card. Still works fine. It just thinks it's the wrong kind of
> network.
This has happened to me several times. I tried to ask about this on the
networkmanager-list and got no satisfactory reply from the list.
> 
> 3/ Videos views in xine have become very stuttery.
> 
> I keep the machine fully updated from fedora-updates, fedora-extra and
> livna, but it can sometimes be days (or weeks) until I reboot the
> system. So these problems could potentially have been caused by any
> update in the last couple of weeks.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like this recently? Or can you suggest fixes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave...
> 
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