first last wrote: > --- Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could this be a drive issue instead of a k3b issue? Does it play >> dvd's >> back at regular/expected speed or are they choppy. It could very well >> be that if you're using the ata_piix module for the drive, that you >> have to add some options to get it to perform properly. I had to do >> this on my dell 9300 laptop under c5, but afterwards things move >> pretty smoothly. Burning the c5 dvd takes about 2 minutes. >> -- > > It is not a drive issue. The same drive in the same machine works > perfectly on Ubuntu 6.10 with K3B. It does not seem to have any > problems reading disks either. > > I guess I am gonna spend a whole evening doing tests and recording the > results (CPU, throughtput, etc). > > Gabriel Also make some tests using nerolinux demo, it works fully until it expires. If it crawls under nerolinux, then it is definitely a driver issue.