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Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed



On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:25:12PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> >>1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you 
> >>if you have acceleration.
> I'm running the drivers i got from the nvidia website, I was not aware 
> that there were other drivers available for this nvidia card. glxinfo 
> does say i have direct rendering on, nothing about accelleration however.

Should be ok.

> >>2) DMA? Perhaps you need to run hdparm against your drive to turn on DMA 
> >>or 32-bit addressing.
> 
> I ran hdparm -c1 -k1 /dev/hda so hdparm -cd /dev/hda gives me this output.
> 
> dolphy:~# hdparm -cd /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)

That looks good.

> Could it be certain processor specific options in my kernel? i can post 
> my .config file if that is a possibility. I'm not a expert on kernels.

Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't
think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know,
so we might as well have a look at .config.

Frank


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