Quoting Dave Smith: Well, I finally found out how to get DMA enabled in RedHat 8. They've made it even more difficult than in previous distributions. You have to add this line to /etc/modules.conf:
options ide-cd dma=1 Then, you can do the normal hdparm stuff: hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda Once you do that, you never have to do it again. So there you have it. Now, my DVDs play beautifully under RedHat, so I can finally trash that annoying 400Mb Win98 partition. That brings up another point: Why aren't Linux DVD players up to snuff with Windows ones? I can play a DVD in Win98 _without_ DMA and it is smooth. I can move/resize the window and it doesn't miss a beat. I can even do things in the background and it still plays smooth, very smooth indeed. Is this cause Linux developers are left trying to crack the DVD CSS encryption or what? --Dave On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:42, Matt Pittard wrote: > Ok...so I symbolically linked my dvd to my cdrom and I began to watch a > DVD. The only problem now is that the DVD plays choppy. I don't think > I'm having video card problems--meaning my video card isn't good enough > to render stuff fast enough--it is a 64 meg ATI all-in-wonder and I have > a new liteon DVD rom. Things work perfectly in Windows...any > suggestions? > > Might it be the fact that almost 80% of my memory is being used up? I > have 256M of DDR Ram and I don't know what needs to run in the > background to use up 80% of the RAM--and it is usually up near 95%. I'm > wondering if I installed something along the way that I most likely > shouldn't have...or something. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > PS--I guess I won't make rename my directories, I'll remember to just > make new symbolic links. Thanks Michael. > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:31, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:12, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > Thanks for the advice on symlink, Michael and for the additional > > > information on how to do it Glen. I appreciate it. Couldn't I just > > > rename my /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/dvd...or would this cause major problems? I > > > have a CD burner and a DVD player and it would be helpful for me to > > > rename them anyway. Currently they are cdrom and cdrom1. > > > > cdrom is a symlink itself to the real device (like /dev/hdc or > > something). So don't move it. Just make another symlink. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:02, Glen Wagley wrote: > > > > You need to make a link to your dvd drive. To ensure you are making a > > > > link to the correct drive, try eject /dev/cdrom from the command line > > > > and make sure your dvd rom opens. Then, as root, ln -sf /dev/cdrom > > > > /dev/dvd from the command line. > > > > -Glen > > > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:02, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > > > I installed mplayer and I'm able to watch a DivX video, however, I get > > > > > an "Could not open DVD device: /dev/dvd" error when I try and play a > > > > > DVD. Is there something I have done wrong? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > > > > > Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > > > > > > > Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > > > > > > > thus far, but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > > > > > > > All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > > > > > > > called "mplayer" > > > > > > > (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > > > > > > > program I need to set this up and I'm a little confused as to the exact > > > > > > > order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > > > > > > > program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. The > > > > > > > instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > > > > > > > sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. If anyone > > > > > > > could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm > > > > > > > running Red Hat 8.0. > > > > > > > > > > > > Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using > > > > > > apt: > > > > > > > > > > > > apt-get update > > > > > > apt-get install mplayer > > > > > > > > > > > > If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and > > > > > > untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32. > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > > > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > > > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > -- > > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ______________________________________ > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
