Re: dual head on ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY

[Michael Elkins <me@sigpipe.org>]

Jarrett Lee wrote:
> Also, in X have you noticed that in X the video "hangs" for a half
> second occasionally?  When I run X, no matter what display manager I
> use, the whole screen will lock up for a half second every few seconds.
> When running XMMS the sound went right along with the lock ups and
> paused every few seconds.  So far this has been my only complaint about
> running Linux on my laptop.  I'm hoping that somebody else has had a
> similar problem and will know what to do.

I a similar problem until I used hdparm to enable 32-bit disk I/O and
enabled DMA for my hard drive.  Once I did that the problem went away.
Sound plays smooth and no X hiccups.