1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) 2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially the section about dma: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance#DMA_mode_-d 3)can you give the url of the blog?
hope that i helped... O/H Colleen Beamer έγραψε: > Hi guys, > > A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having > problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, > but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I > tested me theory .... my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega > external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop. I attached the > drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine. > > I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a > Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to > hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone > who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said > was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the > kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then > recompile the kernel. > > Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I > thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice. > > Regards, > > Colleen >
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