RE: alienware hardware

["Chad Kitching" <CKitching@powerlandcomputers.com>]

Have you tried booting with noapic, nolapic, noioapic and/or acpi=off? 
Unfortunately since you compiled all your drivers into the kernel, 
asking you to try without loading any of them won't work without a 
recompile.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yaroslav Halchenko [mailto:yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu]
> Sent: June 24, 2004 4:10 PM
> Subject: Re: alienware hardware
> 
> 
> it is seems to be more general problem, because it slows down not only
> dpkg process - booting on 2.4.26 kernel takes about 5 minutes to
> complete and of cause no dpkg is involved in that process.
> 
> I took dpkg as just single example, I don't what to try else on...
> bogomips reports about 50% of what is in /proc/cpuinfo, so it looks
> normal... I'm suspecting IDE, so it looks like when app has 
> to work with
> HDD then it slows down although HDD bulb doesn't report an 
> activity....
> but I might be wrong. btw - I will put hdparm as well on the
> webpage
> 
> We are about to setup X on that beast and I will try may be some other
> programs... suggestions?
>