[CentOS] compaq R4000 update (hogging interrupts)

After a couple hours last night....

doing a "killall -SIGUSR1 cpuspeed" bumps up the /proc/cpuinfo
information for cpu mhz to 2393 Mhz. I did notice a little increase
after that. However, the machine is still sluggish.

I did a "hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda" but really did not notice any difference.

I tried to download fglrx64_6_8_0_8.16.20-1.x86_64.rpm from ati
(also 8.20.8) and get the screen to be in 1280x800. This did not work.
The screen pops up initially for the boot process but then goes black.
I waited quite some time but nothing ever showed on screen.
Screen is still 800x600.

Anyone have experience with the ati radeon 200M Express setup?

Anyway at this time I am disappointed so far. the reason for buying
this model (performance and portable) does not seem to be performing
very well.

I continue to search for ways to setup the screen and find these lost 
cycles...

One thing in dmesg output is :

ACPI: PCI interrupt link IRQs 10 11 *0, disabled????? Not sure what this 
is about.

************ I just noticed something else in dmesg... (entire dmesg 
posted below)

waring: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interutps
rip __do_softirq+0x41/0xa2

Any ideas on that?

Jerry

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Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet)
Linux version 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL (buildcentos at x8664-build) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Thu Oct 27 14:29:45 CDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003feff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003feff000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                                 ) @ 0x00000000000f7df0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD    RSDT   0x06040000  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x000000003fef9503
ACPI: FADT (v001 HP     Piranha  0x06040000 ATI  0x000f4240) @ 0x000000003fefee10
ACPI: MCFG (v001 ATI    Piranha  0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005f) @ 0x000000003fefee84
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD  POWERNOW 0x06040000  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x000000003fefeec0
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD  	 APIC   0x06040000  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x000000003fefefb0
ACPI: DSDT (v001     HP     3085 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000000000000
No mptable found.
On node 0 totalpages: 261872
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 257776 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:7 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Setting APIC routing to flat
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ 2cb0000000 size 32 MB
Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes)
time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz PM timer.
time.c: Detected 2393.119 MHz processor.
time.c: Using PIT/TSC based timekeeping.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 1025280k/1047488k available (2398k kernel code, 21468k reserved, 1303k data, 164k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 4702.20 BogoMIPS (lpj=2351104)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ stepping 0a
Using local APIC NMI watchdog using perfctr0
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.464 MHz APIC timer.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 26)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB4_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:04.3[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:04.4[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1134514476.973:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 3A21F444BEEAFDD
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (53 C)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST9100822A, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
 Firmware: 6.2
 Sensor: 35
 new absolute packet format
 Touchpad has extended capability bits
 -> multifinger detection
 -> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 56Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 37449)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.39.04)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)
powernow-k8:    3 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0x10, vid 0x2
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices: 
 LID KBC0 MSE0  PB4  P2P ELAN 
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x41/0xa2
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux:  Disabled at runtime.
SELinux:  Unregistering netfilter hooks
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000, 00:0f:b0:bb:43:61, IRQ 225
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 185, pci mem ffffff0000006000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 185, pci mem ffffff000001e000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 185, pci mem ffffff0000020000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: wakeup
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:03:04.0 [103c:3085]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 209
Socket status: 30000006
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using address 2
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.7
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffffffff80451480(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 2048276k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4091 buckets, 32728 max) - 496 bytes per conntrack
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)