Help! The Dectalk PC is hosing my clock!

[Adam Myrow]

Actually, I haven't had any trouble silencing the Dectalk PC.  So, at
least that isn't giving me any problems.  As to the idea that it may be
the CMOS clock, I don't think so.  For one thing, Linux only uses the CMOS
clock to initialize the time.  After that, it runs on its own, essentially
ignoring the CMOS clock until you shut down the system, or manually run
the hwclock command.  The exception is that supposedly, the kernel updates
the CMOS clock every 11 minutes if NTPD is running and has declared the
time to be syncronized.  Most of this is discussed in the Clock
Mini-howto.  Speaking of the clock, do those weird messages show up if you
compile enhanced RTC support into the kernel?