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Re: music can't play smoothly with xmms



On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> 
> My first guess is you did not enable DMA on your drive. You can check
> this with hdparm. For example, if your drive is /dev/hda then type
> 'hdparm /dev/hda' and see if you get a line saying 'using_dma    =  1
> (on)'. If you see it off, turn it on with 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' and
> see if the problem goes away.
> 
> If the DMA setting does fix your problem you need to turn it on during
> boot up. The simples way might be to install the hwtools package
> (apt-get install hwtools) and then edit the file
> /etc/init.d/hwtools. You will see where to uncomment/add the hdparm
> commands easily.

Thanks to Shyamal and Deryk, it is just this problem. I have thought DMA
is on by default, but it doesn't.

-- 
Zeng Nan

Simple is Beautiful.

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