Okay, I have this really strange problem with my machine. It happened before but just went away.
Basically, the system clock every couple of seconds jumps ahead about 1 hour (actually 4294 seconds) and then back. This is reflected in the clock applets, as well as a sanity checker program that I wrote that polls gettimeofday() every 250 milliseconds. Since I last had this problem, I have completely reinstalled redhat 8.0 (for other reasons), so this isn't something like a compromise or anything. The symtoms include -- no keyboard typematic and sometimes I get double letters when I type. Obviously X uses the system time to compute these things. Mouse events are also weird. Consoles don't have a problem with typing, but the problem is still evident when I run my test program. So it's not a gnome-specific or even X specific thing. The only wildcard that I can see is that it's possible these things start happening when I plug in and use my firewire external disk, although unplugging the disk doesn't seem to do anything. Perhaps there's an irq conflict with firewire that messes up the clock. I have a machine at school with a firewire disk, and I think it doesn't have this problem, although I'll check on monday. Anyway, just thought I'd tickle some brains. There are some examples of this happening on google, but I haven't found any real good information on cause. cheers, Michael. -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
