thank you so much for your help guys. I wish I would have thought of googling
it. Sometime I remember.... most times not.
On Monday 20 November 2006 12:01 pm, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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@cox.net
> > <mailto:bmike101@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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