From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030242AbVI2VfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:35:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030246AbVI2VfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:35:03 -0400 Received: from drizzle.CC.McGill.CA ([132.206.27.48]:58349 "EHLO drizzle.cc.mcgill.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030242AbVI2VfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:35:00 -0400 Subject: Re: problem with 2.6.13.[0-2] From: David Ronis Reply-To: David.Ronis@mcgill.ca To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: david.ronis@mcgill.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <58cb370e050929032935a87c72@mail.gmail.com> References: <17206.60255.403692.773279@montroll.lan> <58cb370e050929032935a87c72@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Department of Chemistry, McGill University Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:34:24 -0400 Message-Id: <1128029664.15252.20.camel@montroll.chem.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 > >