http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11785
------- Comment #8 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-10-30 06:58 ------- Thanks Len, I will do as you have requested but I have uncovered something pretty horrible in all this mess, Which is pretty frustrating because I want Linux running on this machine. I went to the asus website and found that there were bios updates to be had. Great I thought, Lets try that. Flashed the bios with the most recent rom, Great. Booted my copy of Mandriva 2009. Massive slow down. It was about 5 minutes to get to x. vanilla 2.6.27.3 and everything was slow. Particularly udev. Re-installed tried again, Same thing slow, Right from boot. Both with and without nolapic resulted in a huge lag during anything. Tried other distributions, Tried with and without nolapic. Still the same. I tried loading the bios' default settings also, Still the same. Basically, The current version bios for this machine and it's previous revision all cause the kernel to run very low. I tried the version before current and it performed in the same way. The original bios version is not slow and just needs nolapic or will not boot. I was prudent enough to dump the bios before hand and have now restored the original rom to the bios, Which works perfectly as before but needing nolapic. So you guys need to know that this machine, m3n with it's latest bios version installed is not working properly at all. It will boot without nolapic but it will run real slow. I don't know what to do with it, If it wasn't such a useful tool, It would have gone out of the window. Len you are right that this machine has one processor with one core. If local apic is to do with smp then is it therefore correct that local apic is not required? If so, Yes, The version of the bios that runs with nolapic would seem to need it switching off or not turned on by the kernel to avoid a crash. As far as the CONFIG_SMP goes, It's a make oldconfig on the kernel that ships with Mandriva 2009, So I guess they turn lots of stuff on and I don't have a great idea what to turn on, So went for what was working already. I'll add attachments and stick with the old version of the bios that needs nolapic for now. Do you think that this is something I should talk to asus about? It's an old(ish) Laptop so I doubt that they will be that interested because windows runs fine with all the bios revisions. Could this possibly be anything to do with a certain mr gates and a rubbish secret acpi implementation that is deliberately designed to obstruct Linux, I wonder? What would need to be done to attempt to fix the latest bios revision slowdown? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
