On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:25:49 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > "John" == John Holland <jholland@tomsw.com> writes: > > John> I just switched my laptop to Debian. I'm using a mix of > John> stable and unstable. Sound works with ogle, but with xmms or > John> xine it is very choppy. > > A common mistake people make with Debian starting out is not enabling > DMA on the drives. Debian does not do this automatically. > > man hdparm > > for how to check this out. To enable DMA on boot up try > > apt-get install hwtools > editor /etc/init.d/hwtools hdparm is in it's own package these days: apt-get install hdparm However, I have never used it to change the settings on my drive. Well, I did, and I almost lost the drive. Now I just check 'enable DMA by default' in my kernel config. I just keep hdparm around for 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hdX' to see what my throughput is. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Violent Femmes - Promise : Violent Femmes Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 25th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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