Comment 5 for bug 8706

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > If you press control+alt+f1 to switch to a text console and log in there, is
> > that also slow? or only the graphical environment?
> >
> > Please send a copy of /proc/interrupts as well
> Text console mode is also slow in fault condition, if you warm reboot during
> fault condition it is also very slow booting.
>
> CPU0
> 0: 280816 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 44 XT-PIC i8042
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 5: 13 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs
> 7: 0 XT-PIC parport0
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 11: 13462 XT-PIC yenta, yenta, uhci_hcd, ESS Maestro
> 12: 7048 XT-PIC i8042
> 14: 8434 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 1818 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> LOC: 0
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0

I downloaded a BIOS update from Toshiba for the Satellite 4090 and updated the
bios from version 7.90 to version 8.20. With the new bios I was able to force
acpi to load using acpi=force in the grub loader (this didn't work with the
earlier bios). I then didn't need the apm in the /etc/modules and everythings
running at a nice speed :-)