Hi folks. Every time I come out of suspend, my clock time has been incremented by exactly and hour (to the nearest minute). Why is this?

Also, I've discovered that when suspended, a small amount of battery is being used. Is there a hibernate support alternative?

I've visited sourceforge and looked at the acpi kernel driver, but I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to patching the kernel, nor do I know if this is necessary.


Regards,
unholy

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RedHat 9.0 on a Dell Inspiron4000.

Check to see if the hardware clock is correct in BIOS, it may be that the OS is adjusting for Day light savings or somesuch on boot, but that doesn't get run when the os comes out of suspend it just updates the time from hardware clock and goes on.

Hibernate isn't that much better actually, I don't know... I used to get about 24 hours of hibernate out of a thinkpad battery. Regardless, acpi is a little better at this.

First, is your laptop even ACPI compatible, p2 era, probably not, half of the early p3's were, anything after that, of course, but then its a case of is the kernel acpi support good enough for your laptop.

It really wouldn't be a matter really of a kernel patch, it would just be downloading the source to the newest kernel, which has acpi support, and compiling that.

Or... Wait for Fedora 1.0, which is effectively RH10, or switch to SuSe, Gentoo, the newest Mandrake, or Slackware, all of which have acpi support in their most recent versions.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks. I plan on switching to SuSE soon. You said that you get 24 hours out of hibernate.

Hibernate saves all memory contents to a file. Your machine powers off completely.

Suspend gives about a week( only core cpu and ram have low power), and standby, which I think you are using gives about a day.

I think compiling a kernel is a little out of my league, but I'm eager to get SuSE. The reviews are excellent, and the majority of things I have spent all my time downloading and installing for redhat come as standard.

Thanks for your reply. I'll check up on my bios. I know its PIII but thats all

I did get, past tense... battery isn't what it used to be, and I haven't bothered configuring acpi on this install... Mine's a P3 too, most likely you've got acpi, its easy to find out in the docs from the laptop manufacturer...

Cheers,

Finegan