On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a little while > > now, but I must not have things configured properly > > because the performance I get is terrible. > > > > Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse > > becomes unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly > > and the like. This didn't used to happen for me under > > 2.4 so I'm wondering if it's possible i've done > > something very wrong. > > I experienced the same thing when I switched from 2.4 to > 2.6 and it drove me crazy until I remembered what it > could be. It turned out DMA was not activated on the > disks. Could that be it in your case? > > See with "hdparm /dev/hdxx".
OH! That was it. Thankyou. I've a VIA chipset and somehow the configuration option name had changed between 2.4 and 2.6. I'm compiling support in again now. Thanks very much, I can't believe I mindblanked that being it. c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
