On Friday 13 December 2002 11:16, Adam Bower wrote:
I have a current problem with my DVD drive that it can use DMA fine, if you are either watching a Video DVD or mounting/reading from a CD-Rom. As soon as you try to read a data DVD though you get lots of error messages in the dmesg log, disabling dma you can then read from the DVD data disc. Anyhow what is your motherboard chipset? (type lspci to get a list of hardware on the motherboard) and you can find out the DVD drive with a cat /proc/ide/hdX/model (where X is the ide device name)
Well I never knew you could do that. Live and learn eh? It appears I have a VIA VT8386/8365 (I assume they are 2 separate board models rather than one long one separated with a '/') mobo and DVD-ROM BDV212B.
In answer to the commands I used for xine (from MJ) I did ./configure && make ...oh, did you mean how I enabled DMA? hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd I *think*. It's what the xine-check script suggests. I also enabled DMA for the DVD in the yast2 config prog thing.
OK, cheers for all the suggestions. I'll have a play around to see if anything works.
BenE