On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:36, jpearl24 wrote: > 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
Here is the output of hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 10011/255/63, sectors = 160836480, start = 0 Any other ideas? Travis Crook Visions Beyond
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