DMA

[Scott]

On 05/24/2006 02:52 AM, * Matt Zimmerman spake thusly:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:42:23AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>> Well, at least report it or something - these things don't fix
>> themselves!
>>
>> This is the first I ever heard of this "DMA is never enabled by default
>> and DVDs don't work without it" problem, and I read almost every message
>> posted to the kernel mailing list.
> 
> That's because that isn't an accurate description of the problem.  I have
> five Ubuntu systems around me right now for release testing, and Dapper
> enables DMA on all of their CD drives by default.

I'm running Dapper and indeed it enabled DMA by default on my computer.

The same can't be said for the following on the same computer.

Ubuntu Breezy
Ubuntu Hoary
Debian Sid
Debian Etch
Fedora Core 4

I know next to zilch about this stuff. Is it kernel related perhaps? Has
the problem been solved by virtue of having a newer kernel?


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