On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:37:33PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi, > I just helped a friend installing a Core 6 in his laptop and the > outcome is suboptimal. > Amongst the usual problems [1] with the installation, the main > annoyance is due to the general slowness of the entire system. > > It all start as soon as "Starting udev" appears: this step takes > roughly 2 minutes! > Then the boot continue but everything is deadly slow; I also noticed > the CPU usage going to 100% just by moving the mouse. > > Please note this same laptop was also affected by: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186164 > so an issue with the sony hardware could be a valid hypothesis > > I am attaching the dmesg output [2]: if needed I could provide other info. > > Thanks in advance for any insight Think I've seen this firsthand. Boot with 'nolapic' and see if that fixes it. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list