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After upgrading (clean install) to Ubuntu 12.04, the speed issue when running programs has reduced on my MSI GX660R laptop. However, the boot time is still much longer (over a minute, even after BIOS) than on the many less powerful laptops I have encountered running the same OS, and I was wondering if anyone could help me improve it.

I use the FGLRX driver, if that makes any difference.

I have uploaded a boot chart, it can be found here http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/bootchartl.png/

As you can see, the boot time is over a minute even after BIOS. A 'designed for Vista' laptop from ages ago which I installed Ubuntu on boots in around thirty seconds, so I think it's a bit strange.

Output of dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1081359/

Output of /var/log/kern.log : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1081363/

Output of /var/log/syslog : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1081365/

Sman789
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There seems to be a 17 second gap between these two lines in kernel log.

 ... [   13.402834] usbhid: USB HID core driver
 ... [   30.212288] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

hinting at a usbhid device initialization issue.

More large gaps are here:

 ... [   31.633630] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:3fff4000, size:c000
 ... [  322.243797] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd

which seems to indicate an issue with fglrx (fireGL graphics) device initialization

and here:

 ... [   30.688474] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:3fff4000, size:c000 
 ... [   40.231355] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Again, a fireGL potential issue.

HTH

[edit: corrected based on insightful comment from ObsessiveFOSS]

arielf
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OK, this will be an answer in progress and we'll try to fix all sources of unnecessary boot-up delay.

  1. Your mouse/keyboard/touchpad (7 seconds)

    [    6.405954] EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   13.450541] generic-usb 0003:1770:FF00.0001: timeout initializing reports

    What is that device? Can you try booting with mouse/kb unplugged, and plug it in once the login screen comes up?

(to be continued) :)

ish
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