Thanks, Adam. That says the battery is okay. I have been installing new stuff like made here, but no kernel changes or anything I can think of that might affect writing to the clock. The shutdown failure leaves the keyboard inoperative except for the speakup review keys. Init has been asked to switch to runlevel 0, processes are sent the term signal and then the kill signal, the message about writing time to the hardware clock appears, then nothing. And ctrl-alt-del is ineffective too at that point. My sound card remains alive, my internet connection remain active, and in fact incoming mail continues to arrive (I have some sound files announcing that fact). Very strange. Chuck On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > If your clock quit setting and you've changed nothing, it's possible the > battery may be failing. Assuming you have RTC support in the kernel (most > stock kernels do and it's generally a good idea,) type "cat > /proc/drivers/rtc." It will give the time that is in the RTC and will > show the battery status plus a lot of other info. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (76% of Full) So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
