Darrick, I've uncommented the DMA_DEV line in rc.conf and changed it to read /dev/hda as you suggested. This did not improve the speed in anyway...
I took a look in my "working" image of AstLinux and this line remains commented in rc.conf. thanks, Shamus On 2011-12-20, at 1:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:35:06 +0000 > From: Darrick Hartman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 7 > To: astlinux-users <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Shamus, > > If you only have /mnt/kd/rc.conf you would edit that file. (the directory > takes precedence if it exists). > > You should be able to find the DMA_DEV variable in there. You should > uncomment it and set it to: > > DMA_DEV=/dev/hda > > The entire device would be addressed as DMA. > > Darrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shamus Rask [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:57 AM > To: Darrick Hartman > Cc: astlinux-users > Subject: Re: Astlinux-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 7 > > Darrick, > > My apologies for the mis-spelling earlier! > > Doing an fdisk -l, I see that I have 2 partitions: > /dev/hda1 FAT16 *boot > /dev/hda2 Linux > > I do not see an rc.conf.d directory in /mnt/kd, I only see a rc.conf file. Is > this where I should be adding DMA...? > > thanks, > Shamus > > On 2011-12-19, at 11:10 PM, [email protected] > wrote: > >> Message: 6 >> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:42:26 +0000 >> From: Darrick Hartman <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0 >> To: astlinux-users <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Shamus, >> >> Try enabling DMA. I've seen that on some systems in the past. >> >> Add: >> >> DMA_DEV="/dev/sda" >> >> to the /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf file >> >> (assuming your image is installed to /dev/sda) If it's on a different >> device, use that instead. >> >> Please report back if it makes a difference. I believe it will resolve the >> issue. >> >> Darrick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
