Re: problem with 2.6.13.[0-2]

[David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>]

Thanks for the reply.  lspci and lshw both show that it is not an
nvidia, rather the ATI chip.  The 5000 is a series, so perhaps they
changed things mid-stream.  My exact model is zv5240CA.

David

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:29 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On 9/25/05, David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I recently tried upgrading from 2.6.12.6 to 2.6.13.[0-2] on an HP
> > pavilion zv5000 (a P4 with hyper-threading) running slackware-current.
> > The configuration and build went fine and the new kernel boots;
> > however, things run very very slowly.  As far as I can tell, what is
> > slow are process involving any disk IO.  For example, the part of the
> > boot where ldconfig is run seems to take 2-3 times as long as do
> > things like remaking the X font caches, loading programs etc.
> >
> > This vaguely reminds me of my initial experience with this laptop,
> > where I hadn't turned on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP, although it is now
> > (see below).  If I reboot with the old kernel, things run as before.
> 
> According to this page http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/zv5000/
> this laptop uses nForce3 chipset so you should turn on AMD/nForce
> IDE driver (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX).  Does it help?
> 
> Bartlomiej
> 
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