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This is the old Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. AntiX is the only decent disto I tried that it does well with. Note the cpu speed is misreported because the Dell BIOS does not allow software control of cpu freq. Only the max of 2622MHz is correct.

$ inxi
CPU: Single Core Intel Celeron (-UP-) speed/min/max: 438/438/26229 MHz
Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 Up: 1 min Mem: 71.8/1001.8 MiB (7.2%)
HDD: 93.16 GiB (3.7% used) Procs: 124 Shell: bash 4.4.12 inxi: 2.9.05

$ pstree
init─┬─acpid
├─console-kit-dae─┬─62*[{console-kit-dae}]
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─cron
├─cupsd
├─2*[dbus-daemon]
├─dbus-launch
├─dhclient
├─gconfd-2
├─6*[getty]
├─gksu───lxterminal─┬─bash───pstree
│ ├─gnome-pty-helpe
│ └─{gmain}
├─gnome-keyring-d───{gmain}
├─gpm
├─ifplugd
├─ifup───sh───dhclient
├─polkitd─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─process-reaper───sleep
├─rpc.idmapd
├─rpc.statd
├─rpcbind
├─rsyslogd─┬─{in:imklog}
│ ├─{in:imuxsock}
│ └─{rs:main Q:Reg}
├─slim─┬─Xorg───{InputThread}
│ └─desktop-session───jwm
├─startpar
├─udevd
├─wicd───wicd-monitor
└─wpa_supplicant

$ start-t jwm
30.83

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Hi x180a,
My dell computers suffer from the same cpu frequency info problem. One D610 and one D830 laptop
Just a note “Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp” you should change to the latest 4.9 or 4.15
kernels since they are meltdown & spectra patched and see if “/cat/proc/cpuinfo” command
lists pae in the flags. And install that one instead “I686-pae kernel” because your cpu
should support it.
Apparently DELL locked the cpu frequncy in hardware only mode.

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Here’s a screenshot of probably the worst time…haven’t been able to find out why
the poor times on this machine. My D830 has worse time than the D610.

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I removed the wifi card as the broadcom/dell1395 one would only run at
a 2mb on speedtest and my ethernet hits 70mb. Now the boot time is alot
better. start-t conky went from 214.55 to 77.15 on my d830 laptop.

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I upgraded that Dell 1150 to kernel 4.15.9. Thanks for the suggestion, linuxdaddy.

Earlier, on the previous page, I listed the boot time for my Acer Aspire A315-21 laptop with antiX installed on a USB2 connected external 1TB SATA-II hard drive. I have just duplicated the install but this time I used a USB3 connected external 1TB SATA-III drive.

Recap:
$ inxi
CPU: Dual Core AMD A4-9120 RADEON R3 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G (-MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1300/1300/2200 MHz Kernel: 4.9.87-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 Up: 2 min
Mem: 175.6/7504.4 MiB (2.3%) HDD: 1.20 TiB (SATA-II then SATA-III) Procs: 169 Shell: bash 4.4.12
inxi: 2.9.05

USB2 connected 1TB external SATA-II HD:
$ start-t icewm
38.42
38.60
38.60
42.49

USB3 connected 1TB external SATA-III HD:
$ start-t icewm
24.71
24.76
24.76
27.02

Things are running noticeably faster but I want to try speeding them up a bit more. I discovered the Acer laptop has an internal M.2 PCI bus. I have ordered an M.2 3.0 X4 SSD and I will post those boot times later for comparison.

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Coming back to finish the above post. It turns out the system has an active express bus but my BIOS is only written to take advantage of it as SATA. So, I installed a M.2 SATA SSD. Otherwise it is the same laptop as that above.

Here are the new boot times:

$ start-t icewm
12.93
12.93
12.93
13.09

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by X180A.
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