Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:29:20 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: problem with 2.6.13.[0-2] |
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On 9/25/05, David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> wrote: > > I recently tried upgrading from 2.6.12.6 to 2.6.13.[0-2] on an HP > pavilion zv5000 (a P4 with hyper-threading) running slackware-current. > The configuration and build went fine and the new kernel boots; > however, things run very very slowly. As far as I can tell, what is > slow are process involving any disk IO. For example, the part of the > boot where ldconfig is run seems to take 2-3 times as long as do > things like remaking the X font caches, loading programs etc. > > This vaguely reminds me of my initial experience with this laptop, > where I hadn't turned on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP, although it is now > (see below). If I reboot with the old kernel, things run as before.
According to this page http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/zv5000/ this laptop uses nForce3 chipset so you should turn on AMD/nForce IDE driver (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX). Does it help?
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