29 Jan
2007
29 Jan
'07
2:36 p.m.
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On a recent Dell laptop, what would cause DVD playback to be very choppy?
I believe not having DMA enabled on the dvd drive can cause this. On my Dell I have hdc=noprobe in the kernel parameters in grub.conf. That seems to be enough to keep the drive working nicely.
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