Core 6 slowness on a Sony Vaio VGN-FS 215M

[Dave Jones]

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

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