Subject: Re: port-i386/17141: notebook (Dell Inspiron) clock runs slow
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/06/2007 17:05:08
The following reply was made to PR port-i386/17141; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/17141: notebook (Dell Inspiron) clock runs slow
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:02:41 +0200
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:25:03PM +0000, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> On my old 4150 (which is mostly out of order now), I had this problem
> regardless of the operating system running. I fixed it at the time with
> a BIOS update, as this was apparently a known problem.
> I would therefore recommend crawling for existing BIOS updates first
> when encountering this problem on this line of hardware.
Unfortunately this is and was the most recent BIOS (A23). The
only solution is therefore to avoid calls to APM.
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Michael van Elst
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