FIXED Re: Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Tue Sep 9 04:35:43 UTC 2003
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>
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