Re: port-i386/17141: notebook (Dell Inspiron) clock runs slow

[Michael van Elst]

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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