On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:12 AM, <deb...@cercy.net> wrote: > I installed Debian 5.0 on a Dell Latitude CP 233MT. I've had this machine > for a long time, its run fine with 3.0 and 4.0 over the years. I'm having > one problem with it under 5.0. When it boots up, it loads modules then > when it's populating /dev there is a huge pause, I haven't timed it, but > at least a couple of minutes. Fire it up and then hit the bathroom or a go > get a glass of water type pause. > > In the tasksel during the install, I picked just laptop and basic system, > I installed X later. The first time I rebooted, the pause was so long, and > the text output looked so odd, I thought it locked up. Has anyone had this > same experience on similar hardware? Does the slowdown seem normal on a > machine of this class or do you think anyhthing can be done to tweak it? > > > a clip from dmesg: > > [ 56.594202] EIP: 0060:[<c0208b3d>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 > [ 56.594202] EIP is at pnp_activate_dev+0x3/0x3a > [ 56.594202] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000014 EDX: 00000000 > [ 56.594202] ESI: 00000000 EDI: c343ae00 EBP: c02273a2 ESP: c357fdf8 > [ 56.594202] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > [ 56.594202] Process modprobe (pid: 1281, ti=c357e000 task=c345e8c0 > task.ti=c3 > 57e000) > [ 56.594202] Stack: 00000000 c49ea3a3 c229d400 00000000 c49ea77d > c343ae00 ffff > fff0 c49ec680 > [ 56.594202] c0207a68 c343ae00 00000000 c49ec69c c022732c > c343ae00 c343 > aea8 c49ec69c > [ 56.594202] c02273d9 00000000 c034e780 c49ec69c c0226c09 > c343c658 c343 > c658 c343ae48 > [ 56.594202] Call Trace: > [ 56.594202] [<c49ea3a3>] snd_cs423x_pnp_init_wss+0xd/0xe1 [snd_cs4232] > [ 56.594202] [<c49ea77d>] snd_cs4232_pnpbios_detect+0x88/0xe8 > [snd_cs4232] > [ 56.594202] [<c0207a68>] pnp_device_probe+0x70/0x90 > [ 56.594202] [<c022732c>] driver_probe_device+0xb4/0x12a > [ 56.594202] [<c02273d9>] __driver_attach+0x37/0x55 > [ 56.594202] [<c0226c09>] bus_for_each_dev+0x39/0x5b > [ 56.594202] [<c02271c8>] driver_attach+0x11/0x13 > [ 56.594202] [<c02273a2>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x55 > [ 56.594202] [<c0226f5d>] bus_add_driver+0x8a/0x1a5 > [ 56.594202] [<c01ca39b>] kset_find_obj+0x18/0x40 > [ 56.594202] [<c0227531>] driver_register+0x6d/0xc1 > [ 56.594202] [<c4901027>] alsa_card_cs423x_init+0x27/0x64 [snd_cs4232] > [ 56.594202] [<c01363a3>] sys_init_module+0x1509/0x165a > [ 56.594202] [<c0113b22>] do_page_fault+0x294/0x5ea > [ 56.594202] [<c01549bf>] __do_fault+0x2b6/0x2f2 > [ 56.594202] [<c011fd13>] __request_region+0x0/0x5f > [ 56.594202] [<c01037b2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > [ 56.594202] ======================= > [ 56.594202] Code: 93 8c 00 00 00 52 50 68 20 5b 31 c0 e8 9b 38 f1 ff b8 > f0 ff > ff ff 83 c4 0c eb 09 b8 ed ff ff ff eb 02 31 c0 5b 5e 5f c3 53 31 d2 <83> > b8 58 > 01 00 00 00 89 c3 75 25 e8 73 ff ff ff ba f0 ff ff ff > [ 56.594202] EIP: [<c0208b3d>] pnp_activate_dev+0x3/0x3a SS:ESP > 0068:c357fdf8 > [ 56.603968] ---[ end trace 8725eb22de5767d5 ]--- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
I'd say try a different, perhaps newer, kernel.
