Re: PROBLEM: conflict between apm and system clock on Inspiron 8100

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 09:14, mike heffner wrote:
> the switch apm=allow_int, but that showed no change. 
> I have found some vague (don't mention apm) references
> to this problem on the web, but no solutions.  Does
> anyone understand this problem?

The 8100 seems to turn off interrupts itself and read the battery very
slowly causing lost ticks (its taking > 1/100th of a second to do the
read).