Hold on ! Core 2 Duo is a 64bit chip.. I would also just like to reiterate the following point:
"if you want help, please provide _data_ so that people who are interested enough to want to help, can start doing so. All you've done so far is rant." I could not say it better myself James, sorry :p Best Regards, Edward. 2008/7/6 Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at opensolaris.org>: > Matthew Gardiner wrote: > >> 2008/7/5 Edward O'Callaghan <victoredwardocallaghan at gmail.com <mailto: >> victoredwardocallaghan at gmail.com>>: >> >> Maybe these systems are sharing IRQ addresses and that is holding >> things like IO up ?? >> Upgrade your BIOS. >> Just a idea .. >> Regards, >> Edward. >> >> >> No. There are no conflicts, and it has the latest BIOS. Like I said, it >> runs crud on my P4 and great on my Lenovo Core 2 Duo. Something isn't >> working properly in the operating system itself to result in such crud >> performance. >> >> Do file genunix, and compare the output of that to amd64/genunix. >> Obviously no attempt has to be made to optimise Solaris for 32bit machines. >> > > I wouldn't say that "no attempt", but you're right that some extensions > which are guaranteed to be present for AMD64 are not guaranteed for the IA32 > architecture. The end result is that there are instructions not available > in the kernel by default, on a 32-bit build. > > Yes, there are ways this could be overcome. > > However, its unlikely that anyone will seriously invest in this. 32-bit > only CPUs are on their way out, outside of non-performance critical > applications. And further, the performance differences between a kernel > with 32-bit additional instruction support and the stock default, is > probably not that great. Certainly, I doubt that the problems you're > encountering are attributable to the ISA difference. > > Its much more likely there are other problems elsewhere. > > -- Garrett > >> >> Matthew >> >> >> >> 2008/7/4 Kaiwai Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com >> <mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com>>: >> >> Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > 2008/7/4 Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com >> <mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com>>: >> >> > [...] >> > >> >> I've stopped using OSS, and now use the built in sound card >> using the native >> >> drivers. Even so, there is major performance issues. For >> example, using >> >> Firefox 3.0, there is major lag when scrolling through >> websites, opening >> >> menu's is slow. Switching between applications is slow. It >> is pretty much >> >> slowness over all. >> >> >> >> Matthew >> >> >> > >> > What kind of graphic card do you have? >> > I have Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo v5505 with Intel controller >> and it works ok. >> > >> > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 >> device 0x2a02 >> > Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics >> Controller >> > >> > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 >> device 0x2a03 >> > Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics >> Controller >> > >> > But on my AMD Turion with ATI R200 the whole desktop is running >> > extremely slow :/ >> > >> >> I have a nVidia GeForce 8400 GS w/ 512MB video memory; loaded on a >> 3.2Ghz P4 CPU - sure, it isn't bleeding edge, up to date, but it >> shouldn't be showing the kinda lag which I'm seeing. >> >> Btw, it is using the Nvidia drivers. The same issue doesn't >> occur on my >> laptop with has an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M >> >> Matthew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> >> >> >> >> -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format >> for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, >> presentations and word processing documents from this email >> address. 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