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some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts |
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configuration |
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try this: |
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boot without X |
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launch top |
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see anything taking resources |
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launch X |
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see anything taking resources |
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look in logs |
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m |
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At 05:41 2005.09.27., you wrote: |
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>I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the same options as |
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>2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (my reference point). The first time I booted, it took |
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>about 10-15 minutes on my 3GHz P4 laptop! I watched the gdm background |
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>slowly display over about 30 seconds. |
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>I thought it might have something to do with the new default timer |
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>frequency, which I set to 250Hz instead of 1000Hz (which is the default |
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>for pre 2.6.13 kernels). According to various online sites, 250Hz |
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>should still be just as usable, and may even use less power, increasing |
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>my battery performance... |
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>So I changed the timer frequency back to 1000Hz, recompiled and now it |
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>seems a little faster, but no where near 2.6.12. It now boots in maybe |
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>5 minutes, and the gdm theme takes about 5s to display. |
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>glxgears (not maximised) gives me about 30 fps with a radeon 9700! |
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>I checked the frequency governor, and the default is still |
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>'performance'. /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling shows the maximum |
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>frequency is active as per normal. |
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>Other kernel options I changed are: |
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>- support for software suspend added (could this be it? I definitely saw |
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>the message that no valid suspend was found in my swapfile, |
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>and /proc/swaps shows that I have swap enabled as per usual) |
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>- removed unnecessary SCSI drivers (I don't have anything SCSI) |
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>- removed SATA support (I definitely don't have SATA) |
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> |
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>Info: |
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>Dell Ispiron 9100, 3 GHz HT Pentium 4 |
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>2.6.12 and 2.6.13: SMP support for 2 processors included |
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>I've seen 1 post online about the same thing - slow running 2.6.13, so |
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>surely there must be some people in the world running it ok! Any help |
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>on this would be appreciated. |
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>TIA, |
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>Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> |
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