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, 29 Apr 2

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