Enabling DMA.

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Thu Oct 7 20:46:54 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:51:35PM -0500, Alex Goddard wrote:

> Any ideas what to do about this?  It seems like the via82cxxx module isn't 
> loaded when the kernel initially encounters the IDE devices, so they use 
> some default driver that won't allow me to enable DMA, but I have no idea 
> what to do about it except perhaps recompiling my kernel myself with the 
> proper bits compiled in instead of as modules.

Most likely the driver is being loaded too late.  Make sure that it is
listed in /etc/modules _before_ ide-generic.

-- 
 - mdz




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