Time flies?

[Johan Lozano]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 00:10 -0400, Charles Sardeson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen various questions posted concerning timekeeping on the MSI MS-7093 Socket 939 motherboard, but never an answer.  If I boot the machine to PC DOS 6.2, "time" produces a current time that remains  correct after a few hours, but running FC4, the time displayed by GNOME runs at about twice real time.  Based upon one (accidental) test, it appears that the FC4/GNOME combination causes the hardware clock to run backward (lose time), if I reboot to DOS.
> 
> IIRC I've seen this complaint from both WinXP and Linux users.  Since the time remains correct while DOS runs, it seems pretty clear to me that this is a communication problem between the hardware and the system clock, but after reading some of the related man pages, I'm still lost.  
> 
> I can't run hwclock as myself or as su from a bash console.  Mebbe it's not part of the default installation?  I'm very new to Linux.
> 
> I tried (perhaps incorrectly) to search the list's archives for this problem, and got no hits.  
> 
> Has anyone had, or better, solved, this one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chuck 
> 
> 
> 
try adding *no_timer_check=0* to your kernel boot parameters.
this helped me time problem on my laptop running fc4 x86_64

Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be

GPG key : 9A9FBFE1