YOu both might want to check carefully under the enhanced itde,rll blah,blah controller section for parametres specific to your mother boards chip set. For instance quite a few of my athlon systems use the via chip set which when enabled makes a major difference in performance. I believe there are toshiba settings as well but I'm not sure off hand. You could also check over your dmesg closely to see if it gives you any clews to hardware in the system you may not have optimizations turned on for. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
