I've installed Mandrake 9.1 on my Fujitsu Lifebook L-470 (192M RAM, ESS sound, NeoMagic X128 (iirc) video) and everything seems to be working quite well. This is a PIII (Mobile) 366 Mhz system.
But there are two problems which I suspect are related. I've scoured the net and can't find anything relevent, so I'm hoping someone in here can help. The system is very, very slow. It starts out fairly slow and gets worse. It becomes so slow that I can see the screen refreshing (not the several times a second refresh, but there are pauses as the screen changes from one screen to another). The second problem is that the laptop get's quite hot (not the battery area, not the harddrive area, not the memory area, so I'm thinking it's the CPU area). It seems to me that the CPU is overloaded with some process taking more and more of its capacity, and that this is causing it to hot up. What I've tried: I'm running the Gnome GUI, but the same happens in KDE and also if no GUI is used at all (command line only). Gnome system monitor: starts to load, seems to finish loading, then disappears entirely. KDE system guard: loads slowly, once loaded shows nothing on any of the graphs and all the status items on the bottom line (system memory, used memory, etc) read 8888888. jobs: shows no jobs MMC: there are a number of services, disabling some seems to help, but not cure, the problem. btw, it takes MMC 3+ minutes to open. Ximian opens in about 1 minute, Gnome's web browser (forgive me, I've forgotten the name) takes 2+ minutes to load and each page thereafter is at least 45 seconds. Syslog shows that the system is unable to enable APIC (iirc) because it's disabled in the BIOS and it tries to enable it but fails. I poked around in the BIOS and found nothing which was obviously APIC related, so I suspect that the BIOS is unable to enable it (too old). I did change the BIOS to make all IRQs determined by the OS since that seems to be the function of APIC, no help. When shutting down the OS is unable to dismount the /home resource. It tries 3 times and fails 3 times. I suspect this is because the OS itself is using that resource, but maybe it's related. Any advice on what to look for, or to fix, is greatly appreciated. I hope I've included enough and the right kind of information. Thanks, Max
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