DVD speed issues - hoary

[Jon Dixon]

I had to do the following on my laptop.

Edit /etc/hdparm.conf and add:

/dev/hdc {
      dma = on
}

Then I moved S07hdparm (in /etc/rcS.d) to S50hdparm.

After a reboot it all worked fine. Any earlier and /dev/hdc isn't found.

HTH,

Jon

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:36:57 -0500, Stephen Durham <smd271 at psu.edu> wrote:
> I would check to see if DMA is enabled on your dvd drive.  Sometimes if
> the generic drivers are loaded before the chipset drive dma doesn't get
> enabled on cd/dvd devices.
> 
> -Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ian Hogben wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > In trying to set up the fglrx driver on X.org. From my reading on the
> > Internets, other people seem to be able to do it. But Hoary requires
> > xfree for the fglrx driver. What gives?
> >
> > I am trying to do this because DVDs are choppy and unwatchable on my PIV
> > laptop. It's either my video driver or my sound driver (alsa atiixp).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian.
> 
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