Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD
drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your
DVDs will now play as they did in 8.2.
To make the change permanent, add it to
On Monday 04 November 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote:
Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD
drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your
DVDs will now play as they
On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote:
Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your
DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation).
Your DVDs will now play as they
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:33:31 -0500
Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI Miark. My question is: Why? Everyone one knows that you really need DMA
turned on for these devices, so why does Dolphin turn it off?
I didn't ask. I speculate it was to improve compatibility, even at the
expense of
On Monday 04 November 2002 18:53, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote:
Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your
DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even
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Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)
On Monday 04 November 2002 18:53, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote:
Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)
On Monday 04 November 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote:
Wooky,
MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command
line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD
drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi
Why is that better, Tom?
Miark
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:53:02 -0600
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That'll work, but a better way is to (as root):
'cd /etc/sysconfig'
(edit 'harddisks', and remove the # in front of 'USE_DMA=1')
'cp harddisks harddiskhd?'
where ? is the
Last week, while I was still running 8.2, DVD playback
via Ogle was flawless. I installed 9.0 yesterday, and
with it, Ogle. Now I get really poor playback picture
quality. I tried mplayer and xine, and they're doing
the same thing.
I have a 1GHz machine with 1GB RAM, and a GeForce 4 MX 460.
