On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I > applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but > they're not as good as they were on Mandrake. I still get brief clicks in > my audio, and trying to play 3 videos at a time, they all drop frames and > the system response slows to a crawl. Strangely, plaympeg won't play in > full screen mode any more, either. Using xawtv to watch TV on my > bt878-based TV card isn't quite as good, either. > > My question: could the difference be the pentium optimizations in the > Mandrake binaries? If so, what might be the key pieces of software that I > should recompile to get similar performance? If not, any ideas what the > difference might be?
>From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make much difference. You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode $hdparm /dev/hda because this is what the patch is ment for. I don't need the IDE-patch on my Athlon-system, I just do a "hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda" in my boot scripts and it works. Phil
