On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
I'm not sure about ICH4 but ICH is here.
Main menu > Sound > Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x
Also, check this one maybe.
Main menu > ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support > Intel PIIXn chipsets support
^^^^^
That was it. Now the ICH4 ide stuff works and the hdparm -tT output is a bit better:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1692 MB in 2.00 seconds = 846.00MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 168 MB in 3.02 seconds = 55.63 MB/sec
but it is still quite slow when I burn a CD. Do you thing the preemtible Kernel patch could help?
MfG Michael
To improve performance I do the following.
-- enable dma and other options in /etc/conf.d/hdparm (all_args="-c1 -d1 -k1 -m16 -u1")
-- preemptive kernel support
-- low latency scheduling
-- run a lightweight window manager
Yes preemptible kernel support is very desirable in general for desktop use. It is available in vanilla 2.6 kernels and many other kernels such as gentoo-sources.
HTH.
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