[ale] Laptop too slow

[Mark Wright]

The battery is useless.  It only stays up a few seconds.

/proc/cpuinfo shows AMD K6 473.459 mhz and 64K of cache.

It could be running degraded I just don't know how to tell.  I am not  
used to laptops and their power management circuitry.  I did try to  
put it to sleep with the ALT- F key combo that Compaq designated to  
put it to sleep with but nothing happened.  There is an icn in the  
tray that shows AC power but it won't stay up long enough to switch  
to the battery icon if I unplug it.

Mark


On Oct 21, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Mark Wright wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In my role as computer super hero to my friends in the clutches  
>> of  the
>> evil empire I get to wipe failing windows installations a lot.  I   
>> have
>> a friend's comaq laptop with a AMD processor  running a little   
>> over 500
>> mhz and 28 meg of ram.  Win 98 had gotten so twisted it  would  
>> boot and
>> hang.  Virus checker was negative but that was just  for fun, the
>> formatter was coming no matter.
>>
>> After installing ubuntu 5.10 and adding 128 M of mem the laptop runs
>> but is very slow.  Slower than (or as) a 266 mhz laptop I keep   
>> around.
>> I ran memtest on it first and after the memory install and  the  
>> hardware
>> seems OK.  Memtest does report that the AMD processor  has only L1  
>> cache
>> and no L2.  Is this right or is the cpu broke?  Any  other reasons  
>> this
>> machine would be slow.  I have read comparisons of  how clock for  
>> clock
>> AMD was faster than Intel but this one is very  disappointing.
>>
>
> What does /proc/cpuinfo say it is?  Is it running on AC, sounds  
> like it
> might be running at a lower freq in order to save battery.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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Mark Wright
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