Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Sunday 19 November 2006 4:35 pm, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:20 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>> Hi List;
>>>
>>> I just inatalled FC6 on a Pentium 2.2Gz thinkpad with 2G of memory. I
>>> installed mplayer, the mplayer codecs, xine, kaffeine, etc. Both Xine
>>> and Kaffeine play DVD's but the playback is slow & choppy.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help/advice...
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>>
>> Also, is DMA enabled for your DVD drive? If not, this also causes a lot
>> of CPU usage too. Check that it is set (and set it if not) by running
>> `/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/dvd` as root (setting the device node as
>> appropriate).
>
> I tried this:# /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> using_dma = 0 (off)
>
Is your hard drive a SATA drive? On my laptop, I had to add
hdc=noprobe to the boot options. The DVD drive is then handled as
SCSI device and DMA works. Before I added the option, I had the same
problems playing DVDs.
Mikkel
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