Re: problem with 2.6.13.[0-2]

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

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?

Bartlomiej
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