[NTLUG:Discuss] sluggish mouse when burning dvd

[Jack Snodgrass]

ok... I'll try that on the next DVD I burn. 

If that's it... how do you make the  change 
permanant? Do you have to add that to your 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local script ( redhat/fedora ) or 
is there a better place to add that? 

jack 



On Apr 11, 2005 4:49 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > My mouse starts to crawl ( and jump around the screen to catch up )  when I
> > burn a DVD and try and use my mouse at the same time. The CPU load and CPU usage
> > are low, the browsing performance is fine, nothing seems 'slow' but
> > the mouse. As soon
> > as the DVD is done, mouse response is back to normal? This is a
> > optical mouse connected
> > via a PS2 type port.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> You do not have DMA on the DVD device.  In PIO mode the CPU is doing
> a lot of work.
> 
> Is the device IDE?
> 
> Then try (as root):
> 
> hdparm /dev/hdc   (replace with your device)
> 
> and see if it says that DMA is enabled.
> 
> To try to enable it...
> 
> hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc (replace with your device)
> 
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