DMA

Robert Spanjaard spamtrap at arumes.com
Tue May 23 20:32:38 BST 2006


On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:23:26 +0100, Matthew East wrote:

>>> Really? I rarely (if ever) read the ingredients-part before cutting/eating
>>> a cake. There's no need to know what's inside for most people.
>> 
>> good point. But certainly the point remains that DMA would need to be 
>> explained tot he non-technical user (which is most)
> 
> No. As Scott said: DMA is activated by default for those people whose
> hardware can take advantage of it, and deactivated by default for those
> which can't.

Probably not. There must be a reason why DMA can be enabled/disabled.
And if there's a reason too have that option, there's a reason to put it
in a GUI.

> No user needs to know what DMA is. In fact, it may be counterproductive,
> when people whose hardware doesn't support it try to activate it.

Which is where the advanced settings/mouse-over/help-screen comes in.
A GUI is an excellent way to warn people.

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