Giving up on Linux...

[Dean Mumby]

I have a intel d865perl mb with hyperthreading , sata , and all the same 
features , i installed fedora , redhat 9, etc with legacy mode and then 
simply switched to enhanced mode and i am running fine. did you check 
wether your system had enabled dma

 hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   3568 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1784.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  166 MB in  3.00 seconds =  55.33 MB/sec

not slow at all





xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:

>... for the foreseeable future on my home system.
>
>My home system is an ASUS PVP800-VM motherboard which has hi-speed USB, ACPI, 
>Pentium IV with hyperthread, S-ATA, Intel Extreme 2 graphics (865G chipset).
>
>I also have an antique Adaptec 2930 SCSI card for my LS-2000 scanner.
>
>Redhat 9 install disks won't even boot on this machine unless I disable the 
>Enhanced IDE (<-- totally bogus!!) ...  Fedora Core 1 is about the same.
>
>I decided on FC1 because it uses a later kernel (2.4.22 ... 24?) which seems 
>to support hyperthread and S-ATA better.  When I finally got FC1 installed (I 
>had to disable Enhanced IDE, install, compile a custom kernel and then 
>re-enable Enhanced IDE), it was horribly SLOOOOOOW... running a shell in X 
>and pasting a long command line took forever to complete.
>
>I figured that this might be due to the graphics driver, so I updated the 
>graphics driver from Intel and then X crashed with a segmentation fault in 
>the closed source part of the driver when attempting to start the X server.  
>Even changing back to the original driver in the XF86Config didn't fix the 
>segfault.  Gotta reinstall?  Who needs this? What a nightmare.
>
>The issue here is that Windows XP runs "out-of-the-box" on this system without 
>problems and it is FAST, once it boots.
>
>I could try the 2.6 kernel (and I have a LOT of experience with computers), 
>but what's the use?  The 2.6 kernel is not ready for prime-time, not by a 
>long shot, and neither, it seems, is Linux in general.
>
>I have seen too many bugs and posts on these topics about SMP/hyperthread/ACPI 
>and other issues that cause the system to lock up after a time of running or 
>not run at all and no fixes seem to be in sight - maybe because these 
>problems are intractable without inside information about ACPI and other 
>things that Intel will give to Microsoft but not to Open Source developers. 
>Maybe Redhat just doesn't care. Who knows?
>
>I pity the average user that tries to install and run Linux on their latest 
>hardware.  If I, as an experienced software engineer, throw up my hands, what 
>would a relative newbie who just needs the system to work do?
>
>I have real problems seeing how Linux is going to make it to the desktop by 
>2005 with these kinds of road-blocks.
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>Sad.
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