On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:37:21PM -0600, Arkajyoti Misra wrote: > I am having two problems with my dual boot (FC3 and Windows XP) > Toshiba notebook which seems to me are related to the bios. > > 1. A HP 1100 printer is connected to the parallel port of the > notebook. It works fine but when I boot the machine in FC3 it does not > see the printer and the hardware configuration wizard asks for > keeping/withdrawing/doing nothing with the configuration. The work > around I am using is to restore the bios setting before booting the > machine. What BIOS setting is that? > I need to do it "every" time I boot the machine in FC3. Win > XP, however, sees the printer fine. How can I stop FC3 to change the > bios settings? Are you sure Linux is changing BIOS settings? That would be the first time I hear such a thing. > 2. I am using the network to synchronize the system clock in FC3. When > I am using FC3 only there is no problem. But each time I boot the > machine in XP, the system clock is changed. Again I found that the > bios clock has been changed by FC3. How can I fix this? Linux thinks the system clock is UTC and compensates for the time zone. I don't know about the specifics of Fedora, but in debian the setting is stored in /etc/default/rcS - the value is "UTC" and on my dual-boot machine is set to "no". Search for UTC under etc: cd /etc && grep -ri UTC * | less Cheers, florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060223/f67217bf/attachment.pgp