On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
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?
There is a bug in the newest xorg with ATI cards ...
This may provide some help: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170008
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...
Turn off cpuspeed altogether ...
chkconfig cpuspeed off
(reboot)
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?