Got my 4.3 cd's 4 days ago :) Thanks for a great system. I have installed 4.3 on this laptop and have a few problems: 1). using pkg_add to install packages from cd is very slow: it took over 5 minutes to install firefox and over 10 minutes to install abiword.
2). "startx" takes a minimum of 80 seconds to load fvwm, and over 2 minutes to load windowmaker. I have tried with no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with the sis driver, and then finally with the vesa driver. Not enough time difference to mention. 3). After running X, it takes 10 minutes for Firefox to load and bring up the initial screen/url. Just to start firefox, type in my webmail url, check mail, logout, and shutdown firefox takes 19 minutes (I've tried that 3 times). When loading, firefox uses 95% cpu according to "top". 4). I noticed while trying to install packages, perl uses over 90% cpu, and that is installing from console without X running. 5). Creating keys on first boot too so long I left the room after 5 minutes and kept checking till about 15 minutes when they were finally made. This all has happened after a fresh install. FWIW- FreeBSD 7.0 won't even install on this laptop. I have tried installing 4.3 before and after FreeBSD in case I did something wrong during installation. During installation I installed all packages (including x*.tgz). Any help appreciated on fixing this. I have never tried installing any bsd on a laptop till trying this one. Is there something I need to know to do first? btw- I installed 4.3 on a 500mhz Dell Optiplex GX1 and it is great :) The machine is AMD 1.8ghz with 512 megs ram. OpenBSD partition is 12 gig. Here is dmesg: OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #698: Wed Mar 12 11:07:05 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 1.81 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3 cpu0: AMD erratum 89 present, BIOS upgrade may be required real mem = 468217856 (446MB) avail mem = 444559360 (423MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/20/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd5f0, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0x1befb000 (24 entries) bios0: vendor Acer version "3A32" date 02/20/06 bios0: Acer, inc. Aspire 3000 Acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT APIC BOOT acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S5) LAN_(S5) MODM(S3) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 97 degC acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 not present acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID_ acpibtn1 at acpi0: PWRB acpibtn2 at acpi0: SLPB bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xdc000/0x8000! cpu0 at mainbus0 cpu0: PowerNow! K8 1801 MHz: speeds: 1800 1600 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "SiS 760 PCI" rev 0x03 agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xe0000000, size 0x400000 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SiS 86C202 VGA" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "SiS 6330 VGA" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "SiS 85C503 System" rev 0x25 pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 "SiS 5513 EIDE" rev 0x00: 760: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <HTS541060G9AT00> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 57231MB, 117210240 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PHILIPS, CDRW/DVD SCB5265, TX07> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 "SiS 7013 Modem" rev 0xa0 at pci0 dev 2 function 6 not configured auich0 at pci0 dev 2 function 7 "SiS 7012 AC97" rev 0xa0: irq 5, SiS7012 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x414c4770 (Avance Logic ALC203 rev 0) ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo audio0 at auich0 ohci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "SiS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x0f: irq 9, version 1.0, legacy support ohci1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 "SiS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x0f: irq 11, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 "SiS 7002 USB" rev 0x00: irq 10 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "SiS EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 sis0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "SiS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x91: irq 3, address 00:16:36:3c:14:4a rlphy0 at sis0 phy 13: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 cbb0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "TI PCI1510 CardBus" rev 0x00: couldn't map interrupt bwi0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Broadcom BCM4318" rev 0x02: irq 4, address 00:16:ce:49:a8:e1 pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg" rev 0x00 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "SiS OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "SiS OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask efc5 netmask efdd ttymask ffdf mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b