On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 01:59:13PM -0400, James Drabb wrote: > James Drabb wrote: > >Hey group, > > > >I am runing FC2 with kernel 2.6.7-1. My system is an Athlon 2800+, > >512MB 400MHz DDR and an ATA 133 drive. When I try to burn an audio file > >with cdrecord, the system becomes very unresponsive while the disk is > >being burnt. top show only about 2% CPU usage, yet the mouse is very > >jerky and doing any tasks during the burn are very, very slow (normally > >the system is very fast). > <snip> > > No one has any experience with something like this? Does anyone else > have a similar issue? My mobo is an NForce2 based MSI K7N2. > > Does anyone have an suggestions on how I might go about trying to see > what is causing the problems? Could it be the drivers for the mobo? I > do notice that the reverse engineered forcedeth driver for the NVidia > nic has some issues. For example, sometimes when I boot (espcially a > cold boot), I cannot get to the net from my cable modem, nothing I try > has seemed to work. However, if I reboot in to WinXP and the reboot > right into FC2, the forcedeth driver works like a champ. > > Should I look into newer versions of these drivers? Maybe CVS versions? > > Thanks for any help on this, I would forget about cdrecord and use xcdroast. It is more pleasant to use, has a gui interface, and allows you to control the process more sensibly. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
