On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > So... the RTC battery probably went dead? Will charging the machines > for several hours also recharge it? I had them on charge overnight > the other day so maybe that took care of if.
No. The charging only happens when the laptop is on, as far as I can tell from the circuit. It doesn't happen when the laptop is suspended. However, a small amount of charging will run the clock for quite a long time. I don't have a clue how much charging is required to charge the clock battery from a fully flat state. Perhaps Richard knows. > I will play with the Terminal method and see if I can simplify those > instructions too. Is there a place on the wiki where I should post these > "teacher-eze" versions of the instructions? Sort of a Grannie's guide to > resetting the clock. Good idea. I searched for ntp-set-clock using Google: site:wiki.laptop.org "ntp-set-clock" There was no other reference than the firmware version when it was added. So a place to post these instructions would be good. Setting the date and time within Sugar is reasonably well covered here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Time .. but I recall that some builds don't even have ntpdate, and the instructions don't account for that. Older instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Config_Notes#Fixing_XO_clock_data -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep