Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Duff Mckagan" <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/22/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 22:18 +0530, Duff Mckagan wrote:
> > On 10/21/06, Duff Mckagan <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Well..as you have rightly said, improvement in performance will come
> by
> > > improvement in Hardware. I understand that my hardware isn't too great
> but
> > > the problem is quite serious.
> > >
> > > Whenever I minimize or maximize windows, and if I am playing amaroK at
> the
> > > same time, then amaroK stops playing until the window maximizes or
> minimizes
> > > and then continues playing.
> > >
> > > This doesn't happen on other Linices I have installed (Slackware
> Current)
> > > . I didn't happen on SuSE 9.3 either. But only on this version...I am
> > > experiencing this problem. SuSE 10.0
> > >
> >
> > Also, there are other problems. The mouse doesn't move smoothly on the
> > screen sometimes. The CPU Usage is always close to 100% (thats what
> worries
> > me the most) .
>
> Honestly, these two problems together, it sounds like your problem is
> you don't have DMA enabled on your hard drives. Check with
> "hdparm /dev/<device>".
>
> Enable with "hdparm -d 1 /dev/<device>"




DMA was already ON.



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