on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an
> > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM.
> > but, xine and ogle both appear to be dropping frames.
>
> > that same thread also suggests that this might be a DMA issue
> > (which VERA seems to define as "digital memory access"). how can
> > i enable
>
> Yo nori,
>
> You are sooo close!
yeah, i can smell it :)
> man hdparm
hm, i have ... but i get:
orange:~# hdparm /dev/dvd
/dev/dvd not supported by hdparm
> & enable dma on your dvd player.
how?
thanks again!
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