[Preston] DVD playing

[mp]

just to let you know:

i have a KT-RAID mobo with a T-Bird 800MHz and have never had problems
with DVD playback.

Currently RH9 with standard setup/out-of-the-box does it for me.




On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 00:31, Richard Revis wrote:
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> On Monday 09 Feb 2004 10:21 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
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> > tells me I should run hdparm -d1 to switch on DMA for my DVD (which is
> > secondary master /dev/hdc) but when I try that I get
> >
> > root at tbird2:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> >
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> 
> All fun, for sure.
> 
> First thing, check your chipset - should be this one or similar for ABIT KT7
> 
> peu at elrsr-1 peu $ cat /proc/pci | grep IDE
>     IDE interface: VIA Technologies, In VT82C586/B/686A/B PI (rev 6).
> 
> make sure you have these options for an ABIT mobo in the kernel under ATA/IDE 
> section
> 
> [*]   PCI IDE chipset support                                
> [*]     Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support                     
> [*]     Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support                  
> [*]     Generic PCI bus-master DMA support 
> [*]       Use PCI DMA by default when available 
> <*>     VIA82CXXX chipset support  
> 
> recompile, reboot, try hdparm again. If it doesn't work check if you are using 
> IDE SCSI - if so you need to greate a new devfs node and then apply hdparm to 
> that.
> 
> Procedure is the same for 2.6.* but they moved the drivers around a bit.
> 
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