Comment 46 for bug 43745

Ben Collins <email address hidden> writes:

> The debian bug is not the same one as this. It describes a hang on Dell
> laptops in hwclock, which is worked around by using --directisa.

Regarding the hwclock problem on my Dell 620GX box, I added

 HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa

to

 /etc/default/rcS

...and now hwclock works perfectly!

-- Steve

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