FW: PS/2 mouse lagging
If you don't find your brand in the kernel configuration, download the appropriate kernel patches for DMA acceleration written by Andre Hedrick, from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/. Luckily, your kernel version 2.4.17 has a patch available. -Ramesh | | blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 | It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? | | Possibly. I had to on my wife's computer. To a dmesg and | look for your brand of IDE controller. Make sure said | controller is turned on in the kernel. That's what I had to | do to get DMA working. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS/2 mouse lagging
Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? --Patrick
Re: PS/2 mouse lagging
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:57, Patrick Lane wrote: Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? Try switching on DMA access on your ide bus. for i in a b c d; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done Kind Regards Crispin Wellington
Re: PS/2 mouse lagging
blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 00:09, Crispin Wellington wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:57, Patrick Lane wrote: Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? Try switching on DMA access on your ide bus. for i in a b c d; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 16:38, Patrick Lane wrote: blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? Um. Generic PCI bus master DMA support should be Y, and to save you issuing the hdparm you can set Use PCI DMA by default when available. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y Kind Regards Crispin Wellington
Re: PS/2 mouse lagging
Patrick Lane wrote: blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? What ATA speed does your mobo support ? What ATA speed is your HDD ? If your mobo runs at a lower speed than your disk you may need to go to your disk manufacturers website and grab a utility that you can use to force your disk to run at the lower speed. I know in theory all these ATA standards are supposed to be backwards compatible, but my own experiences tell me otherwise. Simon Hepburn.
Re: PS/2 mouse lagging
On 21/03/02 Patrick Lane did speaketh: blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? Possibly. I had to on my wife's computer. To a dmesg and look for your brand of IDE controller. Make sure said controller is turned on in the kernel. That's what I had to do to get DMA working. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix pgpYX5m2ZoJu2.pgp Description: PGP signature
