Emmanuel Blindauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I could not use my dvd drive until I turned dma use on, so in a > > > way it is necessary to boot my system. > > > > no since: > > - dma drive access is not generally needed to boot a system > > - having dma off usually does not prevent to access a dvd drive
> Watching dvd *need* to have dma turned on a many system, because low > performance without it. it's not *needed* for proper system bootstrapping, thus we must not force everey user to have it installed to watch dvds, you may prefer having an x server and a good video card, but you don't need them, you can go with libaa for rendering. recommendation != absolute requires > but, as mandrake disable dma on cdrom and dvd(comments said it > causes problem?), when users want to reactivate it with hdparm, they > won't find it. if hdparm is not installed, then we don't do anything regarding cdrom > Activating dma at boot is good but it doesn't work every time. > after several mdk install, I've found that on some system, disk > performances are bad, because dma wasn't activated by kernel (why?), > so having hdparm -d1 in /etc/rc.sysinit doing the stuff needed is > good -> we need hdparm. no, it just show that *some* people need it but not everybody. thus, hdparm should not go in basesystem. if we follow such logic, then let force people have ipv6 tools[1], dhcp server[1], bind server[1], kernel-smp[1], openoffice[1], ... we can force servers to have mplayer installed, after all some users need it to watch dvds, ... such logic is bloated. [1] after all, some people need it
