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From: "Dieter Nützel" <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Date goes four times faster!
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:51:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010602224035Z261968-933+3296@vger.kernel.org> (raw)

Alan wrote:
> > > This noon I found that the date went four times faster! It was going
> > > well before about 11 PM Wen May 30. But after that the date
> > 
> > :-) On my system, date likes to go 3 times slower when I do heavy
> > scrolling. Maybe we should teach our computers to do something in the
> > middle ;-).
>
> That is a console locking flaw. Its fixed in the -ac series

I use your -ac series ever (did I? :-) but I am under the impression that my 
hardware clock (date in the long run) is running (little) to fast.

System:

Athlon I 550 (0.25 µm)
MSI MS-6167 (AMD Irongate C4) --- Yes, Alan the very first one...;-)
ACPI anabled...

Have a nice Pentecost.

-Dieter


             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-02 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-02 22:51 Dieter Nützel [this message]
     [not found] <E156K3F-0002FV-00@the-village.bc.nu>
2001-06-02 22:43 ` Date goes four times faster! Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-30 17:21 Sun Qingwei
2001-06-02 11:40 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-02 22:04   ` Alan Cox

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