[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sun Feb 26 16:03:40 UTC 2006


Ben Whyte wrote:
> Any ideas as to why it wont let me activate DMA ?

This almost always means that your kernel lacks the specific driver for 
the IDE chipset you have and is using a "generic" IDE driver instead.

Recompile your kernel to include support for your specific IDE driver. 
lspci will give you details as to which one it is.

Regards

Martin A. Brooks

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list