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@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@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)