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
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