CD/DVD-RW drives and DMA.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:20:15PM -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> On 11/19/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:22:00PM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> > > I had a new user ask me the other day what the message, "Your computer
> > > may be too slow to use the burner", meant and what could be done.
> > >
> > > I went through the procedure of enabling DMA on the writer. I'm
> > > wondering if in Dapper we could get a different message. Something
> > > along these lines:
> >
> > In Dapper, our goal is to automagically enable DMA in the configurations
> > where it works properly, so that no manual fiddling is necessary at all.
> 
> 
> (my first post here, I hope the tone is right...)
> 
> Great, it's a definitive solution... but still does not invalidate the point
> about the warning message in the general sense. If for some reason DMA is
> misconfigured (either because the auto detection failed, or because the user
> somehow turned it off), the error message would still be cryptic... for no
> good reason.

Sure, feel free to pursue that.  I'm just pointing out that this dialog will
become a lot less visible soon.

-- 
 - mdz