From giallu at gmail.com Wed Nov 8 11:37:33 2006 From: giallu at gmail.com (Gianluca Sforna) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:37:33 +0100 Subject: Core 6 slowness on a Sony Vaio VGN-FS 215M Message-ID: Hi, I just helped a friend installing a Core 6 in his laptop and the outcome is suboptimal. Amongst the usual problems [1] with the installation, the main annoyance is due to the general slowness of the entire system. It all start as soon as "Starting udev" appears: this step takes roughly 2 minutes! Then the boot continue but everything is deadly slow; I also noticed the CPU usage going to 100% just by moving the mouse. Please note this same laptop was also affected by: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186164 so an issue with the sony hardware could be a valid hypothesis I am attaching the dmesg output [2]: if needed I could provide other info. Thanks in advance for any insight Gianluca [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 [2] dmesg output Linux version 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (brewbuilder at hs20-bc2-4.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fee0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fee0000 - 000000001feea000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000001feea000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0006000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000f0008000 - 00000000f000c000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 510MB LOWMEM available. Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection On node 0 totalpages: 130784 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 126688 pages, LIFO batch:31 DMI present. Using APIC driver default ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f7520 ACPI: RSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x00000000) @ 0x1fee5890 ACPI: MADT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x0000005f) @ 0x1fee9e78 ACPI: FADT (v002 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x0000005f) @ 0x1fee9ee0 ACPI: BOOT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x00000001) @ 0x1fee9fd8 ACPI: MCFG (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x0000005f) @ 0x1fee9f9c ACPI: SSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x20030224) @ 0x1fee614d ACPI: SSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x20030224) @ 0x1fee5d08 ACPI: SSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x20030224) @ 0x1fee5aed ACPI: SSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x20030224) @ 0x1fee58d4 ACPI: DSDT (v001 Sony J1 0x20060605 PTL 0x20030224) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:13 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:c0000000) Detected 1729.319 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 130784 Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07ae000 soft=c078e000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 511400k/523136k available (2138k kernel code, 11040k reserved, 868k data, 240k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3462.08 BogoMIPS (lpj=6924168) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f3ff 00100000 00000000 00000040 00000180 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed ACPI: Core revision 20060707 CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz stepping 08 Total of 1 processors activated (3462.08 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 Brought up 1 CPUs sizeof(vma)=84 bytes sizeof(page)=32 bytes sizeof(inode)=424 bytes sizeof(dentry)=148 bytes sizeof(ext3inode)=600 bytes sizeof(buffer_head)=52 bytes sizeof(skbuff)=172 bytes sizeof(task_struct)=1392 bytes checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 2118k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Firmware left 0000:06:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) is hidden behind transparent bridge #06 (-#07) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEGP._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 *4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 *3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12 14 15) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 23) interrupt mode. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 8 devices usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: 90000000-afffffff PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:03.0 IO window: 00002400-000024ff IO window: 00002800-000028ff PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff MEM window: 32000000-33ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: 2000-2fff MEM window: b0000000-b00fffff PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:03.0 (0000 -> 0003) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:03.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 327680 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 163840 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1162902993.784:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key 8BDC589434DBC709 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie03] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1 ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (61 C) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ICH6: chipset revision 3 ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: HITACHI_DK23FA-80, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:03.0 [104d:818f] Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI Yenta TI: socket 0000:06:03.0, mfunc 0x01001b22, devctl 0x64 Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf8, PCI irq 169 Socket status: 30000006 Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#06) from #07 to #0a pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x2000 - 0x2fff cs: IO port probe 0x2000-0x2fff: clean. pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xb0000000 - 0xb00fffff pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff usbcore: registered new driver libusual usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1. serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 386k Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 201, io base 0x00001800 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 209, io base 0x00001820 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 193, io base 0x00001840 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x00001860 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 201, io mem 0x80004000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input1 input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input2 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input3 input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input4 SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks audit(1162903051.182:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xb0007000, irq 217, MAC addr 00:01:4A:5E:EB:1C ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input5 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:03.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[193] MMIO=[b0004000-b00047ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:04.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels) nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006 ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0800460301e3674f] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64 floppy0: no floppy controllers found lp: driver loaded but no devices found NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] ibm_acpi: ec object not found ACPI: Video Device [NGFX] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no) md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.4 loaded EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1048568k ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. ip_conntrack version 2.4 (4087 buckets, 32696 max) - 228 bytes per conntrack process `sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time_ms instead. ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present From davej at redhat.com Wed Nov 8 18:00:31 2006 From: davej at redhat.com (Dave Jones) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:00:31 -0500 Subject: Core 6 slowness on a Sony Vaio VGN-FS 215M In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061108180031.GE14846@redhat.com> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:37:33PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi, > I just helped a friend installing a Core 6 in his laptop and the > outcome is suboptimal. > Amongst the usual problems [1] with the installation, the main > annoyance is due to the general slowness of the entire system. > > It all start as soon as "Starting udev" appears: this step takes > roughly 2 minutes! > Then the boot continue but everything is deadly slow; I also noticed > the CPU usage going to 100% just by moving the mouse. > > Please note this same laptop was also affected by: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186164 > so an issue with the sony hardware could be a valid hypothesis > > I am attaching the dmesg output [2]: if needed I could provide other info. > > Thanks in advance for any insight Think I've seen this firsthand. Boot with 'nolapic' and see if that fixes it. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk From julian_yap at yahoo.com Mon Nov 13 01:48:17 2006 From: julian_yap at yahoo.com (Julian Yap) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:48:17 -1000 Subject: My experience with using FC6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook Message-ID: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_"Zod"_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook Overall I am more that satisfied with Fedora Core 6 on my notebook. FC6 is rock solid and AIGLX/Compiz integration is awesome. ~ Julian Yap From dbrennercom at akamail.com Mon Nov 13 14:55:59 2006 From: dbrennercom at akamail.com (Dan Brenner) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:55:59 -0600 Subject: FC6 AIGLX compiz on a Dell C610 Message-ID: <1163429759.2846.28.camel@wererabbit> I have come across a problem with AIGLX/compiz on my Dell C610. The desktop-effect "Workspace on a cube" does not work properly when the screen is 1024x768 resolution. The desktop seems to be reduced to the upper left quadrant and the menubar is not displayed completely. When in this mode, you can't get to any of the menus to turn off the effect, logout or reboot. After experimenting I found it does function correctly in 800x600 resolution. Luckily I tried this with a test user account. Once it got in this mode, the quickest/easiest way to recover was to reboot, login as another user, delete the testuser account and then add it back. Any ideas/hints? Dell C610 P3 1.2Ghz, 512MB, ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY thanks ==================================================================== Dan Brenner 0- dbrennercom at akamail.com All Opinions are My Own??? ==================================================================== From anthony.seward at ieee.org Fri Nov 17 22:44:01 2006 From: anthony.seward at ieee.org (Anthony Joseph Seward) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:44:01 -0700 Subject: HP Presario Message-ID: <1163803441.29936.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> Does anyone have and experience with FC5/6 on HP Pavilion laptops? I'm thinking specifically of the dv2000, dv6000, dv9000 models. Thanks, Tony From bloch at verdurin.com Mon Nov 20 22:31:13 2006 From: bloch at verdurin.com (bloch at verdurin.com) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:31:13 +0000 Subject: Fn-key support? Message-ID: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both on my Vaio S1XP and more generally) In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they aren't detected. There has been support for this when I've been running other distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start. Adam From jdesbonnet at gmail.com Tue Nov 21 03:36:10 2006 From: jdesbonnet at gmail.com (Joe Desbonnet) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:36:10 +0000 Subject: FC6 and WiFi Message-ID: <1cef3e950611201936r70eff0fcsfb9937e3e5f8802b@mail.gmail.com> How to access a wireless network configuration menu? Ie somewhere where I can scan for available networks, select a network, enter WEP key and other misc settings. I've scanned release notes, help, and all the system menus, but it's nowhere to be found. I would have though something like this would have been on the top menubar (eg beside the volume control) Thanks, Joe. From giallu at gmail.com Tue Nov 21 07:27:43 2006 From: giallu at gmail.com (Gianluca Sforna) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:27:43 +0100 Subject: FC6 and WiFi In-Reply-To: <1cef3e950611201936r70eff0fcsfb9937e3e5f8802b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cef3e950611201936r70eff0fcsfb9937e3e5f8802b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On 11/21/06, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > How to access a wireless network configuration menu? Ie somewhere > where I can scan for available networks, select a network, enter WEP > key and other misc settings. You are probably looking for the NetworkManager service: system-config-services should be your friend to turn it on > > I would have though something like this would > have been on the top menubar (eg beside the > volume control) > It will, once activated From gbarros at redhat.com Tue Nov 21 13:02:06 2006 From: gbarros at redhat.com (Guil Barros) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:02:06 -0500 Subject: FC6 and WiFi In-Reply-To: <1cef3e950611201936r70eff0fcsfb9937e3e5f8802b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cef3e950611201936r70eff0fcsfb9937e3e5f8802b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4562F8CE.1000902@redhat.com> wifi-radar is another (more stable?) option. Joe Desbonnet wrote: > How to access a wireless network configuration menu? Ie somewhere > where I can scan for available networks, select a network, enter WEP > key and other misc settings. > > I've scanned release notes, help, and all the system menus, but it's > nowhere to be found. I would have though something like this would > have been on the top menubar (eg beside the > volume control) > > Thanks, > > Joe. > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list From julian_yap at yahoo.com Wed Nov 22 06:52:35 2006 From: julian_yap at yahoo.com (Julian Yap) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:52:35 -1000 Subject: Fn-key support? In-Reply-To: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> References: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> Message-ID: Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. On 11/20/06, bloch at verdurin.com wrote: > Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both on > my Vaio S1XP and more generally) > > In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn > volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they > aren't detected. > > There has been support for this when I've been running other > distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some > of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start. > > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > From bloch at verdurin.com Wed Nov 22 14:44:01 2006 From: bloch at verdurin.com (bloch at verdurin.com) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:44:01 +0000 Subject: Fn-key support? In-Reply-To: References: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> Message-ID: <20061122144401.GA2300@bloch.config> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote: > Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. The problem is that these key combinations are not detected, so I can't assign them to anything. Adam From opensource at till.name Wed Nov 22 15:33:58 2006 From: opensource at till.name (Till Maas) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:33:58 +0100 Subject: Fn-key support? In-Reply-To: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> References: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> Message-ID: <200611221634.00320.opensource@till.name> On Monday 20 November 2006 23:31, bloch at verdurin.com wrote: > There has been support for this when I've been running other > distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some > of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start. I have a thinkpad, for which there is a special application (tpb - thinkpad buttons), that somehow manages to get the information. Maybe there is something like this for sony notebooks, too. Some other keys provide acpi events (tail -f /var/log/acpid shows them), which can run scripts in /etc/acpi/events. Also you can look with xev whether or not the buttons provide xevents, then you can map them with xmodmap e.g. to F13 or something and use them this way. There is a lot of documentation for thinkpads on http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki, maybe you can use something of it, too. And "yum search sony" spits out: spicctrl.i386 1.9-5.fc6 extras Matched from: Sony Vaio laptop SPIC control program spicctrl queries and sets a variety of parameters on Sony Vaio laptop computers, including AC Power status, battery status, screen brightness, and bluetooth device power status http://popies.net/sonypi/ On http://popies.net/sonypi/ you also find some information about using special keys. Regards, Till From jaroslav at aster.pl Wed Nov 22 15:36:16 2006 From: jaroslav at aster.pl (Jaroslaw Gorny) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:36:16 +0100 Subject: Fn-key support? In-Reply-To: <20061122144401.GA2300@bloch.config> References: <20061120223112.GA16083@bloch> <20061122144401.GA2300@bloch.config> Message-ID: <200611221636.25029.jaroslav@aster.pl> Dnia ?roda, 22 listopada 2006 15:44, bloch at verdurin.com napisa?: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote: > > Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. > > The problem is that these key combinations are not detected, so I can't > assign them to anything. > Are You sure? Have You tried with 'xev' for example? -- Jaroslaw Gorny -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ericreyes9 at gmail.com Mon Nov 27 17:13:51 2006 From: ericreyes9 at gmail.com (eric reyes) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:13:51 -0500 Subject: IBMT23 driver Message-ID: Is there driver for IBMT23 (S3 Savage)? I was trying to play DVD using Movie Player but can't display properly. I tried Xine too but it displayed missing plugins.. I tried re-installing totem-xine and plugins but to no avail it failed on the same error. Solution for me: I installed VLC media player and twicked my xorg.conf and added '1024x768". After I modified this file, I was able to watch DVD and the quality was perfect... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdesbonnet at gmail.com Tue Nov 28 13:05:38 2006 From: jdesbonnet at gmail.com (Joe Desbonnet) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:05:38 +0000 Subject: WiFi does not reconnect after hibernate to disk Message-ID: <1cef3e950611280505g619ab49bva975d2f14d286501@mail.gmail.com> FC6 seems to be following a familiar pattern. FC6 after install worked nearly perfectly. After a Shutdown->Hibernate (suspend to disk) the networking would recover on restore. However a few "updates" later this does not appear to work as smoothly anymore. For some reason I must issue a "ifconfig wifi0 up" command before Network Manager has any chance of re-establishing a connection. Is this a bug or mis-configuration or ... ? It's a Thinkpad T41p with a Atheros wireless chipset ("MadWifi" driver which are installed separately) Thanks, Joe.