Enabling DMA.

[Alex Goddard]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.

That did the trick.  via82cxxx wasn't in /etc/modules at all.  Placing it 
before ide-generic did the job.  Thanks to the two who replied.

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Alex Goddard
agoddard at purdue dot edu