As a Linux newbie on an AMD64 laptop with a few problems, I've started to read through the Linux Performance How To (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112346) , and I am now thinking I need to go back and try a different approach to installing linux (ubuntu) and perhaps a new distro.
Here's what I use my computer for:
I'm into web development- (databases, apache, ect.) and some minor graphic work, I'm not an artist.
I enjoy sitting back and watching dvds, listening to music, ect. (sometimes)
When I'm on the computer, I'm on for 2+ hours
And so, I was wondering whether I should stay with Ubuntu or find a new distro (recommendations?); and in both cases, how I should go about setting up the system?
I hope I was clear and not over demanding :confused: (especially for a new forum user)
Here's how I got where I am today:
I'm a Linux newbie, on dial-up, and have only tried Arch 0.5 and Ubuntu Hoary. But here's the weird thing. I purchased an Arch CD offline a long time ago, but never got around to trying to install it untill 0.7 was out, and by that time there was no documentation related to 0.5. However, I pushed on and tried without luck to install it over time period of a week. Needless to say, I was frustrated but excited by the fact that I had so much control over my computer- just through a failed installation process!
Anyways, a few months later, I grab Ubuntu, installed it using their AMD64 edition- lagged a lot, couldn't get my SmartLink modem to work, ect (bunch of problems). So I just used their x86 edition- everything worked. However, my laptop quite literally burns my hands now, things are lagging, and I feel like I'm on Windows again.
ions
07-08-2005, 12:06 AM
First of all make sure that you have no errors/bugs going on and if you do have bugs please report them so those that know how to fix things can. Without stating specifically what's wrong, we need more than 'lagging' to get started. Tell us more about the laptop, let's see some specs. We should see the output of a dmesg to look for some errors as well. Ubuntu & your hardware should be more than enough to satisfy your performance needs according to your usage when things are working well. In my opinion anyway. :)
If you still want another distro, or we can confirm that it's actually Ubuntu's issue and not a general Linux and/or hardware issue Gentoo has a popular AMD64 platform as does Suse and Fedora I think - I dunno, I don't have one so I don't too closely. ;)
Wurm
07-08-2005, 12:20 AM
Might also want to check to see if the laptop_mode module is loaded and/or acpi is ok. My laptop (Centrino) ran hot until I enabled laptop_mode but then it cooled off quite a bit.
pace_tua
07-08-2005, 05:48 PM
Might also want to check to see if the laptop_mode module is loaded and/or acpi is ok.
On, lets see what happens.
First of all make sure that you have no errors/bugs going on and if you do have bugs please report them so those that know how to fix things can.
No bugs.
Without stating specifically what's wrong, we need more than 'lagging' to get started.
Okay. The lagging I am experiencing comes some of the time from opening, minimizing, and closing programs, but mainly minimizing; browsing through my menus; and while using BlueFish. In all cases, there is a pause between my action and when there is a response. BlueFish exibits the most lag to a point that I can barely type- almost all the time (any recommendations on another editor?).
Tell us more about the laptop, let's see some specs.
AMD64 Athlon mobile 3400
1GB DDR
60GB 7200 RPM hardrive (partitioned, working on 40GB of space)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
We should see the output of a dmesg to look for some errors as well.
60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.6[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
Strange, kseriod not stopped
done
ACPI wakeup devices:
EC0 LID MAC AC97 MC97 SLPB
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4300KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS726060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 > p4
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24082K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Stopping tasks: ==|
Freeing memory... done (459 pages freed)
Restarting tasks... done
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 955796k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EP P,ECP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 5.9
180 degree mounted touchpad
Sensor: 35
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio2
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
SCSI subsystem initialized
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Capability LSM initialized
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
cdrom: hdc: mrw address space DMA selected
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Unsupported SiS chipset (device id: 0755)
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
pciehp: add_host_bridge: status 5
pciehp: Fails to gain control of native hot-plug
i2c-sis96x version 1.0.0
sis96x_smbus 0000:00:02.1: SiS96x SMBus base address: 0x0c00
slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel.
slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
slamr: probe 1039:7013 SiS630 card...
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.6[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
slamr: mc97 codec is SIL22
slamr: slamr0 is SiS630 card.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49459 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: irq 20, pci mem 0xfebfd000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: irq 21, pci mem 0xfebfe000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: irq 23, pci mem 0xfebff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:03.3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
usb 1-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -110
usb 1-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -110
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
0000:00:04.0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
0000:00:04.0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd800, IRQ 19, 00:03:0d:15:2e:2c.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[febfb800-febfbfff] Max Packet=[2048]
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.0 [1584:3005]
Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: 00/ea
Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0a38, PCI irq 17
Socket status: 30000006
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.1[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.1 [1584:3005]
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0238, PCI irq 17
Socket status: 30000006
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb-0000:00:03.0-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00030d532581ab88]
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.19
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
scsi: unknown device type 31
Vendor: SONY Model: USB-FDU Rev: 6.01
Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x818-0x837 0x840-0x84f 0x858-0x89f
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0x0, vid 0x12
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
UDF-fs: No VRS found
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (7168 buckets, 57344 max) - 336 bytes per conntrack
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Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=65.144.212.84 DST=65.144.227.167 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 P REC=0x00 TTL=126 ID=56951 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4990 DPT=445 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=65.144.99.74 DST=65.144.227.167 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PR EC=0x00 TTL=121 ID=8650 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3193 DPT=135 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN U RGP=0
Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=65.144.250.56 DST=65.144.227.167 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 P REC=0x00 TTL=121 ID=56444 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2625 DPT=135 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
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Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=65.144.109.139 DST=65.144.227.167 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=121 ID=41428 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4000 DPT=139 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SY N URGP=0
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ions
07-08-2005, 09:24 PM
Just a quick answer regarding Bluefish, I've always found it a bit laggy. Not saying yours isn't made worse by your problem, just stating that Bluefish is known to be laggy. Pretty silly of it really. I still use it though and quite like it otherwise.
Are you sure you have the appropriate video setup for that ATi card? I see something about agpart unsupported SIS shipset and didn't notice any mention about ATi in your dmesg. Only glanced quickly though. Misconfigured video would give you your lag. What brand/model lappy?
pace_tua
07-08-2005, 09:41 PM
Ah yes, I've had trouble with my video, and I thought I had straighten everything out, but then again maybe not (haven't had success in playing videos).
It's a custom built laptop- Uniwill 258KA0 (http://www.uniwill.com/products/performance/258ka0/258ka0.php?HL=1&P=2).
When I was messing with my video setup while installing Ubuntu, I was really confused, and don't remember to much about what I did, so we may have found my short comming.
Sorry for quoting such a long peice of text... doh.
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