Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 20:12, Trevor Smith wrote: > Ok, I think I have the fix for this. > > from the release notes: > > DMA is disabled on CD-ROM drives in this release in a different but more > reliable way than > previously. If you are sure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of IDE > DMA, pla

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Trevor Smith
Ok, I think I have the fix for this. from the release notes: DMA is disabled on CD-ROM drives in this release in a different but more reliable way than previously. If you are sure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of IDE DMA, place the following line in the /etc/modules.conf options ide-cd dm

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 07:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On 8 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > > > Thank you for the info. I've been tweaking my install since last Friday > > and it is taking a lot of work to make a decent desktop out of it. The > > lack of video software, the lack of mp3 libs, t

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:05:15PM +0100, Redhat Simon wrote: > apt-get on redhat? I guess this is unoffical do you know where I can get > more info as its awesome All the info you can get is on http://apt.freshrpms.net/ I've fallen in love with it, myself. Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing li

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
apt-get on redhat? I guess this is unoffical do you know where I can get more info as its awesome Simon On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:42, Dale Kosan wrote: > Head over to http://freshrpms.net and download apt. The do a apt-get > update followed by apt-get upgrade. Then you can apt-get install xine,

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Dale Kosan
Head over to http://freshrpms.net and download apt. The do a apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade. Then you can apt-get install xine, apt-get install mplayer and the apt package for mp3's with xmms. Also check out the alsa how to. Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On 8 Oct 2002, Keith Win

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 8 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > Thank you for the info. I've been tweaking my install since last Friday > and it is taking a lot of work to make a decent desktop out of it. The > lack of video software, the lack of mp3 libs, the lack of ALSA, > inability to use DMA with the stock kernel,

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 18:41, Samuel Flory wrote: > >In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: > >hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc > >to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. > > > >When I use this command (as root) in Red Hat 8.0, I get an error... > >/dev/hdc: > >Setting using_dma

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-07 Thread Samuel Flory
Keith Winston wrote: >I have an IDE DVD drive (/dev/hdc) and I would like to turn on DMA to >speed up playback of movies in ogle. > >In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: >hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc >to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. > >When I use this command (as root

DVD and DMA

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Winston
I have an IDE DVD drive (/dev/hdc) and I would like to turn on DMA to speed up playback of movies in ogle. In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. When I use this command (as root) in Red Hat 8.0, I get an err