Re: I am having trouble getting VLC or Ogle to work

[jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net>]

On Sunday 11 May 2003 01:22, Kent West wrote:
> jeremy wrote:
> >cancel that, after I could not find the correct drive name I just linked
> > to /dev/cdrom and it worked.
> >
> >I would however like to know how to turn on DMA as my video is realy
> > choppy
>
> Find out what /dev/cdrom links to, and then run
>  hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> (where "hdc" refers to whatever /dev/cdrom points to)
>
> The man page also suggests using the -X flag where it discusses the DMA
> flag, but later in the -X section it says that it's seldom necessary.
>
> I'd probably turn on 32-bit addressing, so a more complete command might
> be: hdparm -d1 -C1 /dev/hdc
>
> If you don't want to do this manually after each reboot, you might want
> to create a startup script. For example, I've created
> /etc/init.d/sethdparams and then created a link to it in /etc/rc2.d..
>
> EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> ls -l /etc/init.d/sethdparams
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          290 Jan 18 10:32
> /etc/init.d/sethdparams
>
> EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> cat /etc/init.d/sethdparams
>
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> N=/etc/init.d/sethdparams
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>
> set -e
>
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>         hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda
>         ;;
>   stop|reload|restart|force-reload)
>         ;;
>   *)
>         echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
>         exit 1
>         ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0

if I install hwtools, could I not just place regular comands in the hwtools 
file? so I could place hdparm -d1-c1 /dev/hdc in that file and it will run?

thanks

Jeremy