Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Luigi Cristalli <luigi.cristalli@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]emerge make my comp slow :(
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:57:52
Message-Id: bacd36480608051056g4f35cf8bj32cf9020fa727a5b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64]emerge make my comp slow :( by "Hemmann
1 Ok.. so now the problem is known..
2 The fastest way I can suggest you is this (it will be helpful many
3 other times,be sure! ;-)
4 Boot from live CD and verify your DMA.. If it's 1, good!!
5 You can recompile your kernel with the auto-generated configuration...
6 It will make your DMA working, be sure! ;-)
7 If it is not 1, so it' s off, it is bad, very bad... but first try this :-D
8
9 follow the white rabbit... ;-)
10
11 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7#doc_chap4
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14 2006/8/5, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>:
15 > On Saturday 05 August 2006 14:51, Mihir Sevak wrote:
16 > > Hello everyone,
17 > > i tried to set my dma = 1 by
18 > > "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda"
19 > > and got an error mesg.
20 > > "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted"
21 > > Of course next step was google on it and i varified that my kernel is
22 > > tweaked like...
23 > >
24 > >
25 > > <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
26 > > <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
27 > > <*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
28 > > [*] Use multi-mode by default
29 >
30 > don't use this
31 >
32 > > <*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
33 > > [*] PCI IDE chipset support
34 > > [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support
35 > > [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
36 > > [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
37 > > <*> Intel PIIXn chipsets support
38 >
39 > and that is very probably wrong too. You need support for YOUR chipset. Not
40 > some random intel stuff.
41 >
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