gnome apps starting slowly (if at all)

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Drewcore Wrote: 
> i'm using fluxbox because my machine hasn't been blessed with the
> greatest of resources (celeron 700mhz 128mb ram). however, after
> upgrading to hoary (and gnome 2.10), fluxbox starts slower and most of
> the gnome apps aren't being very responsive. is this because of a
> significant change in gnome that hasn't been accommodated by fluxbox
> yet? just curious... i guess i can tar on the command line again (i
> was getting spoiled by file-roller).
> 
> thx
> drew
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Sounds like DMA isn't enabled for you drive.  Post the results of the
following:

Code:
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  for disc in `ls /dev/hd?`; do sudo hdparm $disc; done
  
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