also sprach Derek Gladding <derek_gladding@altavista.net> [2002.07.19.0158 +0200]: > (1) VESA driver is painfully slow - it works, but does everything in > software, gobbling up huge chunks of CPU. It's probably worth grabbing > the 4.2 debs to get Radeon support (that's what I'm using now, and > works fine for me). Wow, that really made a difference. I could have figured... > (2) Have you tried playing with the hdparm '-u' flag to turn off > interrupt masking during IDE accesses ? I must correct my last message to you... i call /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck "god is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -- voltaire
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