On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:00:04 -0500, akonstam wrote > 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 Xcdroast is only a GUI frontend to cdrecord. So it is still be required when using Xcdroast. I run Xcdroast and it works fine for me. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
