Since yesterday I have a problem with a problem with my MNT Pocket Reform. On boot most of the time the picture is shifted to the right. Somtimes it is fine but it shows problems with the real time clock and indeed the time is not correct. Gnome is now in portrait while Sway is still in landscape. I don’t think I did anything to the hardware but it seems like a hardware problem to me? I am afraid the nipple of the hardware power switch is gone but I would be surprised if this is related.
Any help is greatly appreciated - thank you!
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I got the same screen issue after upgrading to 6.14 kernel. So it’s should not be a hardware issue.
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Thanks for the feedback - there are other people who report the same issue concerning the display. Display and Softlock Issues after using HDMI through USB Hub - #2 by josch . However, I am not sure about the real time clock issue?
I have not experienced such an RTC issue so far.
Does cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/since_epoch work in your reform?
Result is cat: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/since_epoc: No such file or directory
Hmm, then what does dmesg say after modprobe -r rtc_pcf8523 && modprobe rtc_pcf8523?
You have a typo there. It should be “epoch” and not “epoc”
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Thanks for spotting. 
And also thanks for creating the link to the other related posting - both greatly appreciated!
Actually that results in an integer (1746956186) as it probably should and that integer changes with the next call.
That resulted in modprobe: ERROR: could not remove 'rtc_pcf8523': Operation not permitted . After adding sudo I get no output i.e. also no error. However, after the last few reboots the date and time were off by a few days. That corrects itself after a while - which might be because I enable NTP synchronization on my device.
That integer is the number of seconds since the unix epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00) and you can turn it into something human-readable by sending the number to the date utility:
$ date --date=@1746956186
Sun May 11 11:36:26 AM CEST 2025
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For anybody who found this thread because of the display issue, that one just got fixed: Display and Softlock Issues after using HDMI through USB Hub - #5 by minute
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The Kernel updates fixed the issues. Thanks a lot for the support. I really like the community around these products! 
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