Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[pelibali <pelibali@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I had 2 threads already for this topic and even that my time-drift 
issue was finally solved simply by replacing the CMOS battery of my
mom's compi, I would still need few answers.

I tested our old battery, providing around 1.15V and also checked the
new one, having 3V. I run with both of them SUSE's the croned default
battery-check script and both gave OK as result. I just wonder how
SUSE understands the OK signal if the mainboard itself feels that
something is wrong and the time in fact was drifted a lot. (No BIOS
settings were lost, but the old battery still had around 1V power.)

What do you think, would it be possible to file e.g. a bug-report pro-
viding some more details on this topic; maybe the battery-check script
itself could be modified on a way to "feel the difference" between 1V
and 3V! I also tought about to test the very same hardware with both
of my batteries under Windows and see how it behaviours...

Any ideas please what to do?! I feel that such a croned, but more sen-
sitive way to test this battery would be extreme useful and help us a
lot in the long run.

Thanks,
  Pelibali