5 Apr
2006
5 Apr
'06
11:16 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jon Moss wrote:
The DVD playback is a little choppy so I need to investigate how much RAM was "donated" with the laptop. And that may not make a difference . . . may just be the age of the laptop or the norm for Totem Movie player.
My money says that "# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc" will take care of the choppiness. All that does is allow DMA for the dvd drive. I'm assuming that /dev/hdc is the dvd, if not, then season to taste.
This can be allowed whenever a dvd is mounted by adding the following lines to /etc/default/hdparm :
harddisks="/dev/hdc" hdparm opts="-d1"
Regards,
-Don