slow system

[Eric "Shubes"]

That's a good guess.

You'll need to add the acpi=off kernel parameter. Presuming you're using
grub, you can add "acpi=off" to the kernel parameters like such:

kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 ro root=LABEL=/fedora rhgb quiet acpi=off

Keep everything you already have, simply add 'acpi=off' to the end of the list.

Dazed_75 wrote:
> I did a google search on the phrase "Misaligned resource pointer". 
> Almost all of the results I checked seemed to say this message comes
> from ACPI and several said it was a known bug.  Whether true or not,
> since this has only to do with power management and you are using a
> desktop system, you might just try booting with ACPI turned off. 
> 
> This is guesswork, but perhaps the slowness in booting has to do with
> the attempt to discover controllable resources.  It could also be that
> conflicts from the new hardware are involved.  In any case, turning off
> ACPI is one of the common cures for booting a LiveCD on older systems.
> 
> In any case, it is worth a shot and I think can be tried easily although
> I do not know how.  Maybe one of the gurus here can pop in and say how
> or tell us I am totally wrong.  :)
> 
> On 11/20/06, *Michael Havens* <bmike101 at cox.net
> <mailto:bmike101 at cox.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey.... look at that.... I ran an upgrade and that fixed most things.
> 
>     It still takes a minute to load the hardware driversand I still get
>     the 'misaligned resource pointer' error. And the minute long wait
>     before that
>     appears.
> 
>     On Sunday 19 November 2006 1:48 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
>     > Do ya all remember how I was compaining about my system being
>     slow? Well
>     > here is some of what is happening:
>     >
>     > I was watching the bootup and one of the first procedures was:
>     >       Loading hardware drivers
>     >(which took about 66 seconds)
>     >
>     > Then three lines appeared at the same time which may have some
>     bearing in
>     > this matter; they said:
>     >       SET: Misaligned resource pointer <hardware address> ....
>     >
>     > Here are a few examples of the slowness.
>     >       10 sec- kmail composer window (I didn't time an initial
>     kmail instance)
>     >       10 sec- susequent kmail instance
>     >       35 sec- first konsole of the day
>     >        6  sec- subsequently
>     >
>     > As previously stated, it was running normally until I installed
>     the new
>     > cards.
>     >
>     > Does anyone know what should be done to correct the problem? Yes,
>     I think
>     > reinstalling the system will fix it but I want to know how to do
>     it without
>     > starting over (again).
>     >
>     > Thanks guys (and gals).
>     > ---------------------------------------------------


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-Eric 'shubes'