Firebird -> Firefox -> veer to left: Athlon

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:46:48 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> my AthlonXP 1800+ for most things, even when a low mermory footprint WM
> is in use. As reported earlier, hard drive is faster than the AthlonXP
> system. As soon as I get a round tuit, I'll put in another memory stick.

Happy with the Athlon? I guess it is in a desktop box and not a laptop,
right?

I have a laptop with an Athlon XP-M  that is not fully happy. It is running
SUSE 9 with all the latest SuSE Athlon updates. I have the following
problems:

#1

I cannot switch virtual terminals from a graphic one. So, I can get a GUI
login and can log in. However, If I do anything that does a virtual terminal
switch the system stops dead. This includes trying to configure the display,
starting another session, trying to switch to another text VT, or logging
out.

Despite this I do use the laptop on a regular basis. One login per boot.


#2

I cannot use any power management or the system stops cold after some
minutes. So I have to run the kernel without it and not start any
programs to do so. So I do not get a peep when the battery is low. I also
suspect that in the absence of power management the CPU is running at its
slowest speed. 

/proc/cpuinfo lists:

 processor       : 0
 vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
 cpu family      : 6
 model           : 10
 model name      : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
 stepping        : 0
 cpu MHz         : 1393.309
 cache size      : 512 KB
 fdiv_bug        : no
 hlt_bug         : no
 f00f_bug        : no
 coma_bug        : no
 fpu             : yes
 fpu_exception   : yes
 cpuid level     : 1
 wp              : yes
 flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
	  	   pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
 bogomips        : 2738.17

'powernow' lists at boot:

 powernow: Minimum speed 1396 MHz. Maximum speed 1995 MHz.

This is on an Acer 1350. Last I checked (in late November) there was nothing
related to this I could find. Time to look again.


There. I just had to get this off my chest. I feel better.

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