On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 23:50 -0500, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, I *know* there's something wrong with the machine. Screen savers
> >> move in jumps, performance on everything is way slower than this
> >> CPU/memory combination should warrant.
> >>
>
> This sounds like a IRQ routing issue. Welcome to the pain of ACPI and/or
> broken a APIC.
>
> Have you tried booting with any of the following kernel options:
>
> acpi=off
> noapic
> nolapic
> irqpoll
>
> Try each one, and in various combinations. I'll wager one of them will
> "fix" the clock problem as well as much of your perceived slowness.
>
> - Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
I'm with Ian on this one. I had this exact thing happen to an Athlon 64
right when they first came out. Tried installing 64 bit Linux with
extreme slowness and erratic feedback icons. noapic and acpi=off in the
grub fixed it instantly.
Mike Branda Jr.
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