Re: PROBLEM: Suspend corrupts bios clock since 2.6.21

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Andreas Steffan wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> I am running fedora core 7 on my Dell latitude D810 notebook (BIOS
> rev A05).
> 
> Since 2.6.21 I found that suspending (to disk and to ram) corrupts
> the bios clock most of the time (not always). The corruption is
> happening during suspend. When I enter the system bios right after
> I switch the system back on, I find the bios clock is set to a time
> far in the future (many years). I guess that problem is related to
> the clock changes that where introduced with 2.6.21.
> 
> Please let me know if you want me to provide further information to
> get this problem fixed.
> 
> If there is a known quirk to work around this problem, I would
> really appreciate a hint.
> 
> PS: I have not yet tried 2.6.22.4-65.fc7, but the latest 2.6.22 kernel
> before showed the same behaviour for me.

Please check if PM_TRACE is enabled in your kernel configuration. It 
will do this intentionally.

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