2.6.4 P4B533-E extremely slow

From: Moonlit (alt.spam_at_jupiter.universe)
Date: 03/27/04

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    Hi,

    I reinstalled my system with RH9.0 and the latest gcc 3.3 compilers and
    GeForec4 nvidia drivers. Finally it seems everything works after a load of
    problems, getting the nvidia driver to work again, enabling dma for my
    harddisk, etc.

    However now when I start my system especially X-Windows (actually this was
    true since I installed 2.6.4 kernel), starting programs and X-Windows itself
    is extremely slow. I have the feeling that things are waiting for some
    hardware interrupt. For instance when I click 'terminal' it takes about a
    minute before the terminal pops up. The same thing when I start the mozilla
    browser or any other program actually. Fist I thought the cause was that dma
    wasn't enabled for my drive. But now it is, and things are still extremely
    slow. I followed the instructions on the nvidia site about a slow start of X
    however (though less apparent) it seems even a terminal session in runlevel
    3 sometimes seems slow, starting other programs.

    I have a ASUS P4B533-E board. I (compiling the kernel with or without
    Promise chipset support doesn't help). System specs are as follows:

    Boot from a non raid Maxtor 80GB disk.
    GeForce 4 graphics card
    P4B533-E motherboard with raid 0 (2 60 GB Maxtor drives ) (which I use for
    windows XP and disable in the bios when I boot into linux).
    IDE Lite CD-Rom drive

    Probably I have to go back to a 2.4 kernel (and hope that will solve the
    problem), however maybe someone out there has got a P4B533-E board working
    with 2.6 and would like to share its .config file with me. Or maybe
    somewhere out there, unlike the complete noob I am, knows what I am doing
    wrong.

    Any help appreciated, and thanks for reading my post anyway.

    Regards, Ron Greve.

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