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Originally Posted by r_mosaic_g

For the display problem in Virtual PC, I looked at the dmesg output. I found the following line:

...
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: S3 Trio32 on 0000:00:08.0, 4 MB RAM, 14 MHz MCLK
...

May this be the problem? How can I disable the switching?

Finally I guess the problem with my installation may be the incompatibility of Virtual PC 2004 SP1 rather than anything else. VPC seems incompatible with the new 2.6.21 kernel at least in the mouse and the video. The older kernel versions may be OK (console video modes haven't been tested, but the mouse is OK).

Then VPC is not a compatible PC with that version of kernel. Just forget it, I'll go on using the 2.4 kernel with Slackware 11. Thanks to everybody.

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Originally Posted by ppr:kut

I encountered some severe performance issues on my pc. The whole system responsiveness plunged down to a low. My old notebook (200MHz) is 10 times faster than this machine (2,5GHz). It is no matter what kernel I use (generic or huge) although I think it's somehow related to the kernel, but I couldn't find the relevant option causing it.
However, it is not only the boot process being slow, it's everything (KDE startup, startup of akregator takes about 4 Minutes!!!!; make, which is causing kernel recompilation to be a real pain).
Please HEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!

Hi ppr, I've experienced something similar with older 2.6 kernels in a laptop. The problem was related to some apic incompatibility. Maybe you can spot something in dmesg which leads you to the cause of this. Meanwhile, try passing noapic and nolapic options to kernel when booting, that solved my problems in the past.
I think you should open another thread to try to solve this since it's not so related to what the original poster was talking about.