Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jule Slootbeek wrote:

> recently I installed Debian sarge on a P4 2Ghz machine using the new 
> debian-installer. After setting up this new machine, which previously 
> ran windows XP, I started noticing that many processes were not 
> running at optimal capacity. When I play games the graphics are slow, 
> and I usually have to turn down a lot of options, for example, when i 
> play Battle for Wesnoth, during the automated sequences the scrolling 
> is not smooth, and waiting for my turn takes forever. This was never a 
> problem when it ran Windows. Even firefox takes a while to open a new 
> tab, and opening new windows in Gnome takes longer than one would expect.


Two things that come to my mind:

1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you 
if you have acceleration.

2) DMA? Perhaps you need to run hdparm against your drive to turn on DMA 
or 32-bit addressing.



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Kent West
westk@acu.edu