Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:50PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > and often go without notifying root or the message log. You should not > be able to use -X68 without the patch, since the Viper was never meant > to do ATA66 in the first place, and Andre's ATA66 patch is a hack that > just /happe

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > 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 > > Hi Phi

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Jon Pennington
David Steinberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > 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 > > Hi Phil, > > Thanks for replying. From hdparm

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread David Steinberg
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > 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 Hi Phil, Thanks for replying. From hdparm... using_dma= 1 (on) > because this is

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
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 au