> > Anyone wanna tell me what dma is anyway? Do I need it? > > If not then who cares about the warning! > > Direct Memory Access - a faster way of doing disk I/O than the > alternative. You need it if disk I/O performance is important... if your > activities are not particularly disk-intensive, you probably don't care.
DMA enabled makes a whole lot of difference. The system performs MUCH better. For example, when I occasionaly disabled it, one of the KDE packages compiled 40mins instead of 10mins. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
