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So when I first got my EEE pc (little more than a month ago), It booted up lightning fast. Like 10 seconds. Now it takes a good 45 seconds to boot up. The longest part of the boot is at the "Starting Up" splash screen (I forget the actual wording of it). And then X starts and it is fast again. So I dont know if there is some way I could troubleshoot what is really going on right then and there when that screen is being displayed. The only major change I made was adding the overclocking module. but I believe that gets inserted once X starts, so that should not be the problem. Any other suggestions?
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Did you enable the full desktop? That slows down boot up.
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No I boot into easy mode. I have it so I could boot into full deskop if i wanted to, but default boot is into easy mode.
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Have you looked into "dmesg" for hints? The boot process is recorded there.
Or you can hit F9 at boot up and edit the Grub menu list to remove the "quiet" option and add "nosplash=y". Then you can see the whole process when your eeepc boots up and what is actually slowing it down.
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It appears to hang when loading something with the Synaptics drivers...but it seemed to boot quicker with the quiet being off and nosplash=y. But other than the hangup when it gets to the Synaptics drivers, everything else just scrolls right on by.
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I think synaptic driver is the driver for the touch pad. Any chance you have recently update this driver from Asus Add/Remove Software?
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No, haven't changed the drivers for anything except the wireless.
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I have occasional hangups (even at bootup) with psmouse.c errors.
Editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst and changing from
i8042
to
i8042.dumbkbd=1
saved day.
Other options are
i8042.nomux=1
and
i8042.nopanic=1
.
This was only an issue when the Wifi was on though!
If you have recompiled your kernel with HPET though the /sbin/hwclock lines in /sbin/fastinit might not be called with --directisa and will hang...
To try type
sudo /sbin/hwclock --show
into a terminal and see if it hangs - if it does Ctrl+C will save the day.
Then try
sudo /sbin/hwclock --directisa --show
and if it works you have "a" culprit.
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well here is what is displayed on my screen when I get my hangups upon startup:
[ 9.123509] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 9.133717] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 9.143898] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 9.176756] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 [ 9.196585] TCP cubic registered [ 9.206395] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 9.216036] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 9.225304] Using IPI Shortcut mode [ 9.235378] Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed [ 9.795537] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa0471 3/0x200000 [ 9.905410] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1 [ 20.485883] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 20.496699] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal [ 20.506121] EXT3-fs: recovery complete. [ 20.516799] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 20.750150] Generic RTC Driver v1.07 [ 24.612580] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (leve l, low) -> IRQ 5
As you can see above. it hang for about 10 seconds. It can vary from 0 to 14 seconds.
Anyone got any ideas whats going on here? This happens before X even starts...
Last edited by theSuperman (2008-03-19 2:57:43 pm)
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Well there is a big gap between the PS2 port (see the post above yours for how to relieve this issue) and kjournald which is the Kernel Journal Daemon.
This Kernel Journal Daemon deals with the journaling of a file system. Assuming there isn't a corrupt filesystem in the MMC/SD slot or a USB port then you'll need to tap F9 like a madman upon startup and go to the option saying "Perform Disk Scan" (or words to that effect). Once it's worked its magic you'll need to press a key to restart (don't worry it has instructions).
The PS/2 port issue seems to trigger badly when the wifi card is on. So try turning it off and running the Disk Scan if you want to play it safe first.
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