On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote:
> Hi All,
>       I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment.  I have a
> fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200).  X seems
> to be a little on the slow side.  If I'm browsing the Web in whatever
> browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished
> loading.  Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in
> the same manner.  Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or
> is this "just the way it is"?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Travis Crook
> Visions Beyond
see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will
be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda
it should say using_dma =1 
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