From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [195.166.151.202] (helo=frontdoor.gw0ucu.plus.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183PWu-0002im-00 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:30:44 -0400 Received: from toby (helo=localhost) by frontdoor.gw0ucu.plus.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183PZw-000071-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:33:52 +0000 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:33:52 +0100 (BST) From: Toby Fisher To: Subject: Re: more on hardware clock In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Jude, > That is most interesting. It certainly caused a problem for me > here on this 8.1 distro, and until I got rid of it I was obliged > to shutdown without unmounting my partitions first due to the > hwclock program hanging. You could have got around this by compiling y our kernel with sysrq support, (see /path/to/linux-sources/Documentation/sysrq.txt). Nice stuff, if you know nobody else will be accessing your consol, as you don't even need to be logged in to use it. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby@gw0ucu.plus.com Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html