Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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.
Mikkel
I found the file you are talking about, and it says that a number in the
configuration needs to be changed to enable DMA for the hard drive -
problem is, I don't know how to do that and worse, I am a Newbie's
Newbie if you know what I mean. Were this a Gates Box...
Anyway, could you tell me exactly how to enable the change?
Many thanks,
Paul
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