Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-05-01 Thread Christophe T
2007/5/1, Preben Randhol : > I've got a laptop Vaio with exactly that CPU and I've never had such a > problem of slow boot. I always use i686 kernels. With this computer > I've only had problems with the hard disk (SATA). > The exact laptop model is vaio VGN-A617B Hi! Which kernel do you use no

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:29:54 +0200 Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > > pentium M 740 1.73GHz > > seems it's supposed to work with -686; but since -486 works, it might > be an issue with cpufreq driver; look in dmesg for cpufr

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Preben Randhol
> I've got a laptop Vaio with exactly that CPU and I've never had such a > problem of slow boot. I always use i686 kernels. With this computer > I've only had problems with the hard disk (SATA). > The exact laptop model is vaio VGN-A617B Hi! Which kernel do you use now? Did 2.6.18 work? I have s

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Paolo
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > pentium M 740 1.73GHz seems it's supposed to work with -686; but since -486 works, it might be an issue with cpufreq driver; look in dmesg for cpufreq msgs; seems that Debian's -686 is compiled for M686 (Pentium Pro) which might

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Christophe T
2007/4/30, Preben Randhol : On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:54:27 +0200 Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:21:05AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > was to install the 486 kernel image and not the 686. > > > > Anybody knows why? Is it a bug in the 2.6.18 kernel? > > what's exact

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:54:27 +0200 Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:21:05AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > was to install the 486 kernel image and not the 686. > > > > Anybody knows why? Is it a bug in the 2.6.18 kernel? > > what's exactly the CPU in that Vaio? p

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Paolo
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:21:05AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > was to install the 486 kernel image and not the 686. > > Anybody knows why? Is it a bug in the 2.6.18 kernel? what's exactly the CPU in that Vaio? -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-30 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:52:29 -0300 "Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/29/2007 05:27 AM, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Any hints much appreciated! > > On a few VAIOs you should turn off apic and lapic. > >

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-29 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2007 05:27 AM, Preben Randhol wrote: > Hi > > We are noticing that a new Vaio laptop is extremely slow to boot > Debian. We thought it was PCMCIA problem an started without it, but it > still is slow from around the place that PCMCIA would ha

RE: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-29 Thread Sylvain Alain
Hello, can you post your dmesg and also the var/log/messages, because maybe you have a kernel panic or saomething that stop the boot process. Salut alp From: Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio Date: Sun,

Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-29 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:27:49AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > We are noticing that a new Vaio laptop is extremely slow to boot check that you're running a kernel that knows about you cpu and its pm and cpufreq features; check that you have 'performance' as default cpufreq governor; put some b

Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi We are noticing that a new Vaio laptop is extremely slow to boot Debian. We thought it was PCMCIA problem an started without it, but it still is slow from around the place that PCMCIA would have started. Also the X11 is very sluggish. The laptop is noticeably slower than other older desktop com