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Description of problem: I am using Fedora 8 on HP Dv6448us laptop. it has amd-turion 64 processor. the problem is the hwclock and the poor performance. First I noticed problem at shutdown process. Computer hangs at the "Syncing hardware clock to system time" message. I searched around and saw that too many people are suffering from this. when I try to reach hwclock form console system also hangs and the only solution is a reset from power button. On the other hand the performance of the system is really poor. Although it has 2Gb memory, it works like vista having 512Mb memory. I found that Ubuntu released a patch for this issue. They say that "Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these." here is the link of their bug solution: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200057 thank you Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Will be fixed soon, in the upcoming 2.6.25 kernel for F8.
You can work around this now by adding: io_delay=0xed in /etc/grub.conf to the boot options for a 2.6.25 kernel.
(In reply to comment #2) I oculdnt find the kernel 2.6.25 for fedora. is that released or do I have to get it from kernel.org? > You can work around this now by adding: > io_delay=0xed > in /etc/grub.conf to the boot options for a 2.6.25 kernel.
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