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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 |
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Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found |
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> > to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I |
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> > did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of |
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> > reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. |
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> > Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. |
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> > Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very |
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> > slowly in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X |
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> > running too. WiFi speed is dismal. |
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> > I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I |
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> > haven't managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours |
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> > to update the system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as |
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> > to what the cause of the slowdown might be. |
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> > Sound Familiar? Any guesses? |
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> group scheduling? get rid of it. |
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Good thought! I didn't have it on though. Not particularly useful on |
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a laptop. |
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I fixed it though; it ended up being the BIOS. An upgrade from 8 to |
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15 and it's like a new computer. Yay! |
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Thanks for the response. |
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