Per: Thank you so much. with your hints I finally succeeded. The link you give isn't accessable at the moment (tried it on two computers) but some googling gave me the same file and after adding the lines regarding dell laptops and a reboot the inspiron 8200 works great now. Before it was simply useless because there is only 256 ram and the swapfile usage was already around 75mb, so with the original harddrive access the laptop was unusable slow.
So why is this bug priority medium? It is if you know the way so easy to fix, but for the common graphical unexperienced user like me a major bug. It makes the difference between having a usable laptop with ubuntu or unusable. Anyhow major thanks for helping me Per. -- hald blocks ide bus if cdrom on same bus with harddisk(was:Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48499 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
