interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 18:20:45 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 07:06:44PM +0200, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> 
>> Does that mean you don't know how to explain the benefits/risks of
>> enabling DMA to a user?
> 
> How would you phrase "This option may be disabled due to a bug, or 
> because your hardware does not correctly support DMA. Enabling this 
> option may improve the speed of DVD playback and the reliability of CD 
> burning, or it may crash your machine on boot" in a concise way that 
> allows the user to make a fully informed choice and can be presented in 
> a UI where the user is actually likely to find it?

See my other message for the UI.

If the box is unchecked, the confirmation-window pops up. The contents
depend on the fact if DMA-support was detected by the OS. If it was, there
doesn't even have to be a confirmation. If it wasn't, the text could be
something like this:

"The operating system [or just Ubuntu] did not detect DMA-support for this
device. Although using DMA generally speeds up the device, enabling it on
unsupported hardware will probably make the device unreliable or even
unusable. If this is the case, disable DMA again as soon as possible.

Are you sure you want to enable DMA for this device?"

-- 
Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com