Hi BenE
DMA transfers over the IDE bus work fine under linux - I suspect you need to enable it using hdparm as it is normally disabled by default at boot time (as I recall). The hdparm configs will need to be added to the end of one of your boot scripts so that the settings take effect on the next reboot.
Regards, Paul.
I'll race yer for Qt & KDE..
On Thursday 12 Dec 2002 10:01 pm, BenEBoy wrote:
I installed ogle a while back but the DVD playback kept jumping. On the assumption that this was ogle playing up I installed xine, and the test script that comes with it mentioned that my DVD player hadn't got DMA enabled. following the instructions to enable it just caused my system (SuSE 8.0) to fall over in a heap. There is no problem under windows though. I assume therefore that the mobo/dvd drive can't use DMA under linux (sorry, haven't got the make/models of them). Before I go out and buy a new motherboard/DVD drive, could the fault be anywhere else? Do I need to compile anything into the kernel perhaps? Sacrifice a chicken to a dark god?