Update on Ubuntu and my Church Laptop

[Jon Moss]

Thanks a bunch!  I'll definitely at that to hdparm.

> 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
>


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Thanks very much,

Jon Moss
jon.moss at cnonline.net