Horms, The problem appears to be fixed in 2.6.8, in that behaviour is the same as 2.4.x kernel -- wrong bogomips calculated, but USB and internal PS/2 mouse work anyway. (My original report omitted to say that internal PS/2 mouse didn't work if speed was incorrect in 2.6.7 kernel.)
Thanks for your time, Bill Dudley > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 04:51:33 2004 > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:50:47 +0900 > From: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "William Dudley Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#277081: kernel-image-2.6.x-n-x86 fails to compute correct > CPU speed 4 out of 5 boots, and USB fails > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:34:27AM -0400, William Dudley Jr. wrote: > > > > Package: kernel > > Severity: important > > > > Booting Sony PCG-818 laptop (300MHz Pentium II) with kernel 2.6.x (x <= 7), > > most times BogoMIPS is computed as ~150 which implies ~75MHz processor. > > Sometimes it detects correctly as ~600 BogoMIPS, implying ~300MHz processor. > > I haven't figured out if/how I can force the successful condition. > > > > When speed is incorrectly detected, USB no longer works. Message is: > > "hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?" > > > > When speed is correctly detected in 2.6.x, then USB works fine. > > > > Kernel 2.4.x seems to report speed incorrectly, but USB works anyway. > > > > Below find dmesg examples from three boot sequences: 2.4.x getting speed > > wrong, 2.6.x getting it wrong, and 2.6.x getting it right. > > Could you please see if this problem manifests on the 2.6.8 packages, > 2.6.x (x <= 7) is about to be removed from sarge. > > -- > Horms >
