Paul & Brenda Ahlstedt wrote: > Hi gang, > > Say, I installed Knoppix on a lower end desktop because it has the > ability to turn on DMA hardware acceleration - without it, this > particular computer is dead in the water. I have installed my favorite > distro on it now (2005 Limited of course) and it is slow - my question > is, I have turned off all the KDE animations, prefetching, shading, blah > blah blah, but it is still slow. How can I turn on the DMA under > Mandrake 2005 to make my old favorite desktop KDE work quicker? It sure > does make quite a difference - it has an apparent increase in speed of > some 5 or 10 times under Knoppix. > > Paul > If you are talking about hard drive access, take a look at the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks config file.
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