On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:09:03AM +0000, Michael Lazin wrote: > I am running Red Hat 8 on a laptop with a 1.2 ghz processor and 256 megs of > ram. I tried installing all three linux dvd players, mplayer, ogle, and > xine, but video is choppy with all of them. I tried using nice to give the > video priority. No luck. This is frustrating to me because I was using > Mandrake and DVDs worked fine. Any suggestions?
Sounds like you need to enable DMA for your DVD drive. First you will need to edit /etc/modules.conf and add the following line: options ide-cd dma=1 Then you will either need to remove the module and reload it (rmmod ide-cd and then modprobe ide-cd) or reboot. Then check to see if DMA is enabled on the drive: # hdparm -d <device name> If it is not enabled run the following: # hdparm -d 1 <device name> Then try playing the DVD again. It should be much better. Hope this helps. /jft -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
