Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

From: Frank Gevaerts (frank_at_gevaerts.be)
Date: 09/27/04

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    On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:25:12PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
    > >>1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you
    > >>if you have acceleration.
    > I'm running the drivers i got from the nvidia website, I was not aware
    > that there were other drivers available for this nvidia card. glxinfo
    > does say i have direct rendering on, nothing about accelleration however.

    Should be ok.

    > >>2) DMA? Perhaps you need to run hdparm against your drive to turn on DMA
    > >>or 32-bit addressing.
    >
    > I ran hdparm -c1 -k1 /dev/hda so hdparm -cd /dev/hda gives me this output.
    >
    > dolphy:~# hdparm -cd /dev/hda
    >
    > /dev/hda:
    > IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
    > using_dma = 1 (on)

    That looks good.

    > Could it be certain processor specific options in my kernel? i can post
    > my .config file if that is a possibility. I'm not a expert on kernels.

    Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't
    think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know,
    so we might as well have a look at .config.

    Frank 

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