Hacking Corner

I was having some problems with the laptop clock being completely wrong (and that in turn causing a lot of weirdness during boot and before ntp kicked in), but turns out Debian Etch has some problems saving the hardware clock from system time properly when shutting down. Apparently you need to manually run

hwclock --directisa --systohc

to set the hardware clock from system time (after updating the system time with NTP).

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2007-02 I bought a HP Pavilion DV6191EU. Towards the end of 2007 I had some issues with the battery not recharging and so on, until 2008-01 the laptop finally refused to boot at all – attempt to turn it on was greeted by a blank empty screen. With a little over one month of warranty left, I called HP to get it repaired…

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