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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051214/991f92b1/attachment-0005.sig>