Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl [SOLVED]

2007-07-11 Thread b.n.
b.n. ha scritto: Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, because of three optical drives, only the dvd writer (/dev/hda) seems to have gone with dma off. I turned it on now, I'll try to see if there's a difference. Ok, things back to normal. What could have been? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

2007-07-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb b.n.: > Florian Philipp ha scritto: > > Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d > > /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it > > using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd. > > Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, becau

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

2007-07-11 Thread b.n.
Florian Philipp ha scritto: Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd. Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, because of three optical drives, only the dvd writer (/dev/hd

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

2007-07-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:12 schrieb b.n.: > Hi, > > In the last couple of weeks (that is, from one of the last updates) I > have noticed that k3b (or, better, one of the programs he uses to write > dvds) is much more resource demandin than before. Usually my gentoo > desktop (an old AMD Duron 18