Accessibility of netbooks

[Kerry Hoath]

I saw optimizations for the flash disks used in these machines on the 
eeeuser.com wiki.
Basically you need to change the default io schedular from deadline to 
something else i'd have to dig up the link.
Also you should update the journal commit time to reduce wear on the flash 
disk, this can be done with ext3 by adding
commit=30 to the mount options for the root fs, or by installing 
laptop-tools which can take care of this.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Accessibility of netbooks


> Hi, for what it's worth, and sorry to be a bit behind in the thread, I 
> have installed Vinux 1.4 onto my EEEPC (seven inch 900 mhz model) and it 
> does work, but is rather slow.  I have the default installation, that is 
> to say I haven't trimmed it down at all.  GRML is better, though it can 
> still be slow.  I think the problem relates to the flash disk.
>
> Marcel
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