Re: [SLE] Compiling a New Kernel - Clarification of Terms

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 22:18 +0530, Duff Mckagan wrote:

On 10/21/06, Duff Mckagan wrote:

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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>"