This is probably not debian specific, but I have been revisiting this problem for a couple of years and searching on the web and am stumped.
Dvd is too slow to view a dvd (I've tried a bunch of programs, am using vlc now) I have to copy the files to hard drive. But the transfer is slow, about 1MB/s and the desktop has bad very response time during this time and the system clock runs very slow. The mouse in particular will hang for a second or so at a time. Its something like a 12x dvd, Athlon 1800+ with 1GB Mushkin RAM. I don't get it. I have tried shuffling pci cards, switch things around in the BIOS. I have a promise ide pci card, but I have moved the drive back and forth from the on board controllers. I don't think I have tried another dvd drive, I wonder if this one is defective. Anyone had similar problems ? Or do you know a forum I can send this to ? Please Cc me. Thanks, John -- John Lapeyre http://physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]