On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:01, nate wrote: > not all systems work good with DMA on. especially some VIA > chipsets. i had major problems with DMA on them so i stopped > using the onboard ide and started using promise ata100 cards > in their place. > older motherboards are even worse sometimes ..i think debian > strives to be as conservative as it can with the kernel config. > just enough to get a system running.
I understand, but without it people will have problems with multimedia and a slow system. So, maybe there should be an easy way to get this on for anyone. > first thing i do when i install any system is compile my own > kernel for it. Wanted to save some time .... so many kernel releases in recent month. Maybe I should simply compile my own ... Bye, Steffen