Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Alan]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 15:49, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > It then worked just fine..
> > > > 
> > > > That did the trick.  I had tried everything except the "pci=off".  It is
> > > > installing now.  (Fairly slowly, but installing.  I need a new
> > > > laptop...)
> > > 
> > > The pci=off will slow the install a lot but is neccessary right now.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to why (other than it not working otherwise)?  Before
> > Redhat 9 it "just worked".
> 
> Its to do with whether we probe for cardbus. The bios seems to set up the
> cardbus IDE controller magically as it were onboard. When we touch the 
> pci socket code we reconfigure the cardbus, but don't discover the cardbus
> controller for some reason.

Well, I did the install.  It took a few hours.

XFree86 is *SLOW*.  The system is a P-333 with 128 megs.  Not fast, but
not incredibly slow either.  (Redhat 7.3 runs on it acceptably. I have
not tried Redhat 9.)

X eats up 25% of the cpu on average.  (Which seems very high to me.)  It
looks nice, but most actions take about 30-40 seconds (or more) to
occur.  (Press the button and wait... and wait... and wait...)

I have not straced it to see what is happening.  Maybe Keith's Resize
and rotate extension got replaced with the "sit and spin" extension by
mistake.  (Or maybe it is waiting for dri or some other non-existent
function.)

I have also noticed that acpi installs by default. This machine only
understands APM.  I think that is causing the battery applet to crash.
(It does not come up at all without segfaulting.)
 
-- 
Alan <alan at clueserver.org>