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Subject: Re: PROBLEM:  conflict between apm and system clock on Inspiron 8100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: mike heffner <mdheffner@yahoo.com>
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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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