RTC trouble on some Dell laptops

Mon Nov 6 04:49:48 CST 2006

Hi there,

I have just bought a Dell XPS M1210, and was looking to dual-boot some kind
of Linux on it.
I had a look at Ubuntu (my distro of choice for a desktop) and found this
bug report which cooled of my enthusiasm quite a bit.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/43745

It seems that hwclock writes something to the rtc chip, and some dell
laptops do not like that.

Is this bug specific to Ubuntu kernel/hwclock implementation ? Has it been
seen with other distros, like FC6 ?

Any comments will be welcome, so I can put this new toy to use without
windows :-)

Cheers,

Robert von Bismarck
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