solution: DSL very slow

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: solution: DSL very slow
started by: lwmxynedtodth

Posted by lwmxynedtodth on May 20 2006,16:26

Hai,
Is your DSL very slow, or does it load extensions very slow, or is booting very slow? This maybe the cause and the solution:

- The autoconfigure fails to determine hardware.
- Mine failed to determine my usb and pcmcia.
- Possibly, the option 'dma' can cause problems if it is not supported, or 'nodma' if it is supported. Check your hardware. The default is 'nodma.'
- Not proved: using 'toram', but can cause inequalities if the ram is too small.

DSL is knoppix based, but does not support all hardware. So if you see 'autoconfigure seems to hang' when trying to autoconfig at boot, try on of these options at boot time:

- dsl nousb nopcmcia noapm noapic (etcetera)
Press F2 or look < here > to see the other boot options (or 'cheat codes')

Another solution, but this is not really proved:

- start dsl with 'dsl base', this only loads the base system without mydsl, and this could improve stability.

I hope somebody could use this. At least I did ;)

Ciao,
lwmxynedtodth

edited: thanks, changed it, and otherwise, I think the 'cheat codes' wiki should be adapted to this, and extended with ins and outs of the options.

Posted by ZoOp on May 20 2006,17:30

... and if your hardware is not too old, then just add

dma

in your boot line (or change 'nodma' to 'dma').
yours
z

Posted by Thulemanden on June 30 2006,19:18

Quote (ZoOp @ May 20 2006,13:30)

... and if your hardware is not too old, then just add

dma

in your boot line (or change 'nodma' to 'dma').
yours
z

Maybe someone needs to know where to find the 'boot line' ...

Posted by brianw on July 05 2006,11:27

Quote (Thulemanden @ June 30 2006,15:18)

Maybe someone needs to know where to find the 'boot line' ...

If you are booting from livecd then you need to enter this info at the boot prompt
boot: dsl dma (press F2 or F3 for exact usage)

If you have grub installed then while it is starting you can test by highlighting the entry you wish to test on and press e to edit that line. You will be brought to another line which displays and highlights the boot line so just press e again to edit that line. You can then delete what you don't want and add things that you do want. when you are done just press enter to get back to the line displaying the new boot options and then press b to boot from that new line. This will not make permanent changes (used for testing) so make a note of what you are testing so you can make permanent changes later. Permanent changes can be made by editting the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.