[Debian-eeepc-devel] clock lacks behind

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Wed, 12 May 2010, Juha Heinanen wrote:

> this morning i setup ppp connection and run ntpdate-debian at
>
> 07:34:35
>
> now about four hours later when i run ntdate-debian again, it reports
> 899 seconds offset:
>
> root at rautu:~# ntpdate-debian
> 12 May 11:41:37 ntpdate[26601]: step time server 194.100.2.198 offset 899.850821 sec
>
> which is quite a lot.

Yes.  The clock is drifting a lot.  Noticed that shortly after starting
using the junk :(

> how is is possible that a modern laptop has lost its ability to keep its
> time straight?

That was a rhetoric question, was it not?
Or asked on the wrong mailing list?

Asus is making crappy hardware.  Don't buy it.

IIRC, you own an 1101ha, don't you?
Both you and I and many others will have to keep both pieces :(

> i don't remember seeing this kind of behavior with my earlier laptops.

Well, things change.  Sometimes to the worth :(
Crappy electronic components are cheeper.
That's what Asus is selling nowadays.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian