Wow, 7 hours without an answer. Looks like you stumped us all... ;) The real question is: Does it happen in any other OS? Or is it a hardware problem?
--Dave <quote who="Michael Torrie"> > 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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
