[Nottingham] Distro reccomendations for older PC

[Dean Sas]

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John wrote:
> It appears to be taking most time on boot when giving a message such as
> 'DMA timeout error : status 0x58' , for each IDE device ( including the
> DVD burner). I've put this as a search string into the KUbubtu forums,
> but can't find anything that appears relevant to my situation, the same
> with Google.
> 
> I'll keep plugging away, as the PC works normally otherwise, but are
> these messages logged anywhere in Linux, so that I can look at them in
> more detail?
> 

Probably /var/log/kern.log or try one of the other files in there like
/var/log/debug

Dean
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