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[Derek Moyes <derek AT flamesnyper.com>]

I too run a P4 with Linux (in fact SMGL) and have had no problems like
you describe. I do run hdparm, though.

I'm running an Intel 845BG2 motherboard, with a GeForce2 MX.

Hope this helps.

 -- Derek

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:00, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> also have they turned dma on with hdparm? I forgot to do this once and
> the system seemed 'slow and buggy' my mp3s skipped and it was funny and
> unresponsive. using hdparm solved the problem.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:32:07AM -0400, alvaro wrote:
> > hi,
> > a friend of mine is setting a few linux computers, he had troubles with a 
> > pentium4 server. The machine works great under win2000, really snappy, 
> > but it 
> > freezes a little and 'seems' slow and buggy under linux. He was wondering 
> > if 
> > there are any issues with p4 and linux, everybody we directly know that 
> > uses 
> > linux is running amd.
> > comments anyone?
> > 
> > thanks, 
> > alvaro