Re: New laptop - problems with linux

[Stephen Clark]

Luming Yu wrote:

> On 11/8/06, Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I just purchased a VBI-Asus S96F laptop Intel 945GM &  ICH7, with a Core
> > 2 Duo T560,0 2gb pc5400 memory.
> > From checking around it appeared all the
> > hardware was well supported by linux - but I am having major problems.
> >
> >
> > 1. neither the wireless lan Intel pro 3945ABG or built in ethernet
> > RTL-8169C are detected and configured
> > 2. the disk which is a 7200rpm Hitachi travelmate transfers data at 1.xx
> > mb/sec
> >   according to hdparm. This same drive in my old laptop an HP n5430 with a
> >   850 duron the rate was 12-14 mb/sec.
> >
> > Attached are the output of lspci -vvv, dmesg and hdparm
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >    
>
> Sounds like interrupt problem. Could you post /proc/interrupts?
> It is worthy to try pci=noacpi.
>
>  

          CPU0       CPU1
 0:     902788     893290    IO-APIC-edge  timer
 1:       1444       1393    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 9:      16443      16618   IO-APIC-level  acpi
12:      13089      14223    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
14:          0          0    IO-APIC-edge  libata
15:     223418     202091    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
169:     129430     129240   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb4, ohci1394, HDA 
Intel, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
177:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  sdhci:slot0
185:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb3
225:        527        660   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5
233:        629        145   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb2
NMI:          0          0
LOC:    1793413    1794404
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

tried pci=noacpi
only minor difference in interrupt assignments.

Steve

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