FIXED Re: Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Alan]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:51, Alan wrote:
> 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.)

I have commented out the dri option in the XF86Config file. I also
disabled acpi in /etc/grub.conf.  CPU usage for X has returned to useful
levels.

-- 
Alan <alan at clueserver.org>