2.1.9 mouse sluggish

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:57:12 +0100 (MET)


I tried out 2.1.9 and found that working under X was difficult, since
the mouse pointer didn't follow very well.

Following are the startup messages.

klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Cannot find map file.
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xc00fb130
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb5f0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb620
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 52.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63264k/65536k available (708k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1180k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized

Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.1.9 (root@mvmap83) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Wed Nov 13 18:07:20 MET 1996
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Serial driver version 4.20 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
ncr53c8xx: unit=0 chip=810 rev=0x2 base=0xe4000000, io_port=0x6000, irq=11
ncr53c810-0: using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0xc4841000
ncr53c810-0: requesting shared irq 11 (dev_id=0xc3ff8068)
ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0
ncr53c8xx: unit=1 chip=825 rev=0x2 base=0xe4001000, io_port=0x6200, irq=5
ncr53c825-1: using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0xc4843000
ncr53c825-1: requesting shared irq 5 (dev_id=0xc3ff4068)
ncr53c825-1: restart (scsi reset).
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 1.14c
scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - revision 1.14c
scsi : 2 hosts.
ncr53c810-0-<target 0, lun 0>: using tagged command queueing, up to 4 cmds/lun
Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S80E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<target 1, lun 0>: using tagged command queueing, up to 4 cmds/lun
Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S80E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
ncr53c810-0-<target 0, lun 0>: 200ns (5 Mb/sec) offset 8.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2118144 [1034 MB] [1.0 GB]
ncr53c810-0-<target 1, lun 0>: 200ns (5 Mb/sec) offset 8.
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2118144 [1034 MB] [1.0 GB]
Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 255.
eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0x6100, 00:20:af:d3:7f:60, IRQ 9
Internal config register is 1020012, transceivers 0xe108.
32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
3c59x.c:v0.25 5/17/96 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Partition check:
sda: sda1
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 130624k swap-space
eth0: Initial media type 10baseT.
eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 01020012.
eth0: vortex_open() irq 9 media status 88c0.
eth0: Media selection timer tick happened, 10baseT.
eth0: Media 10baseT has link beat, 88c0.
eth0: Media selection timer finished, 10baseT.

-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.