On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> whistles for quick HD access turned to 'off' .. I tripled the transfer
> rate on my slaptop by turning DMA and other stuff on ... and it didn;t
> explode like the manpage said it might.
I caved and upgraded to 2.4.5, something I dislike doing with Debian.
2.4.x has better gfx card & AGP support. Anyway, there is an option
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y and CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y which *still* don't
have udma switched on with the drives. Oh well.
Is there an agreed-upon place to perform the hdparm shenanigans during
boot? I would imagine early on...
OK, getting more esoteric now -- is anyone running dual monitors? I
finally got my G450 running with KDE2 but the window manager doesn't add
decoration to the windows on the 2ndary monitor, i.e. I can't move
windows and they don't get mouse focus.
Paul
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Slow preparation, fast execution
