it is faster....

[Michael Havens]

thanks for the info, Eric. it is slowing again, now.
I put in a PCI sound card and a USB2.0 card and that seems to slow
things down. I wonder why. I have to go to work now so I am unable to figure 
out which of the two is slowing the system (I suspect the USB card). Before I 
start yanking cards out I would be remiss not to ask if there is a work 
around to this problem and if somone KNOWS which is doing it?
some other symptoms are that it interferes with email trans mission (I have to 
right click->send) and my instant messenger will not load (communications 
apps?)  whereas w/o the cards email never was interfered with and the IM 
would load.
 
On Sunday 25 February 2007 8:04 pm, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Michael Havens wrote:
> > Well, I was loading Mepis 6.0 with the default options and that is what
> > was messing things up. The default options are:
> >
> > 	root=dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=normal acpi=off apm=power_off noacpi
> >
> > I loaded it from the CD as as SMALL (older computer) and those options
> > are
> >
> > 	init=/etc/init apm=power_off vga=normal nomce acpi=off pnpbios=off
> > 	ide=nodma quiet xdrvr=vesa xres=800x600
> >
> > I figure that the init line has to do with it being a live cd and now I
> > know why it thinks my video card isn't a nvidiea. That got me to thinking
> > about how I don't know what the options are really and that there are
> > probably others to optimize my system. So that is what I am asking you
> > all about.
> >
> > One final point: what would happen if I change pnpbios to on?
>
> That depends on whether your bios is PNP capable or not. If it is, by all
> means, turn it on. If it's not, definitely leave the setting off.
>
> > And how would I
> > put a final resolution into my boot up so I do not have to type all off
> > the options in?
>
> The kernel options are specified on the kernel line in your grub menu.lst
> file.