From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 16:36:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49EE37B71B for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-4.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.133]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29402 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:06:29 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: APM and time Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:49:39 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032110570806.01910@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess many of you know the problem: If APM is enabled in the BIOS, then this is fine for switching the monitor into suspend or standby mode automatically when unattended, but the system time slows down so that 24hrs later it is 2 or 3 hours behind the CMOS clock :-( If APM is disabled in the BIOS, the time is OK, but the monitor can only be protected by switching it off :-( Is there a fix for this problem, now? -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message