"Dave Cross" davorg@gmail.com wrote:

On 3/24/07, David G. Miller dave@davenjudy.org wrote:

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"Dave Cross" davorg@gmail.com wrote:

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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+%22pent...

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