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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
26 Aug 2002 18:08:45 +0100

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 18:00, mike heffner wrote:
> Well, isn't that a nice feature. Is there a
> workaround for this hardware?

A thinkpad ;)

In theory you could try writing some code to measure the elapsed time by
other means and then correct the kernel for the number of lost ticks.
Not trivial. Or for that matter dont run battstat

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