Re: alienware hardware

[Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu>]

I remember I've tried to boot 2.6.6 kernel included with debian (they
have pretty much everything in modules) with pci=noacpi and acpi=off
options... it didn't help - it was slow as hell... 

I will try again with them and this kernel shortly. Thanx for advice

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Yarik

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:42:33PM -0500, Chad Kitching wrote:
> 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?


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