Forum- I'm running VMware on a Dell Inspirion 8600 (Windoze XP Pro w/all patches) When I run RH9, the software clock tracks the real clock just fine. IOW, the date command shows the same passage of time as in the real world When I run wither FC3 or FC4t2 (both current with yum), the software clock tracks at a rate that is just about 1/3 or 1/4 of the real passage of time. Not only that, but the soft clock's factor of the passage of time seems to be erratic. Futher, the FC3 & FC4 seem to have other behavior that could be tied back to an erratic clock. Sometimes typomatic works, most of the time it doesn't. The length of time of key hold-down to trigger typomatic seems to very and sometimes I easily get a quick burst of repeat characters from one keystroke. Scrollbars work sometimes and not others. Progress bars (like on Thunderbird where it has a moving bar to indicate activity of send or receive) sometimes run slow, sometimes humorously fast. I get a hint that the timeouts for functions like POP and SMTP server sign-in handshaking fails because the timeout is way too short. Other times, the timeout looks real long. All these functions appear to work normally under RH9. I have tried to automatically adjust the clock but it always errors out because the correction factors are out of range. This is the only festering issue I have to complain about in either FC3 or FC4. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Ewin (NB: This email account is for all my list digests. My direct email is: ewinb (at) chrusos.com)