On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:04 -0800, spmirowski wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:36 -0800 > > spmirowski <spmirowski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to turn > >> on DMA. Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices, hdparm > >> can't tell them to turn on DMA. Any ideas how to get them blazing fast > >> again? > >> > > > > Its always done automatically by libata. > > > > Alan > > > > > Thanks, > > It would appear the issue wasn't DMA, but nvidia-config omitted > something from my xorg.conf that allows hardware acceleration for XVideo. ... and that was? Inquiring minds would like to know! :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
