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  1. Bug #43745
  2. Comment #88

Comment 88 for bug 43745

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Tuomas (tuma+sec) wrote : Re: [Bug 43745] Re: Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops

Hi,

Firmware upgrade doesn't help always, like not in my case. I have upgraded
to the latest bios version A3 on latitude D420 and can confirm that the
problem hasn't disappeared by BIOS upgrade. It doesn't happen very often in
my use, but it has happened once, therefore the problem remains.

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:51:34AM -0000, Klaus Reimer wrote:
> Iulian, do you have the latest Dell firmware for your laptop installed?
> You say you use the latest Ubuntu version so this may be an indicator
> that this error was not solved in Ubuntu or the Linux kernel but it was
> solved in the Dell firmware. I'm using a Dell Latitude D820 and with the
> latest firmware I did not run into this problem in the last months. I
> even did a extreme-rebooting-test as I did to confirm the
> reproducability of the bug and it worked fine. So maybe there is a newer
> firmware available for the Inspiron, too, and it will fix the bug.

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Tuomas Airaksinen, Ph.D. student
University of Jyväskylä, Finland