FC4: DVD DMA on Dell Notebook?

Schlueri schlueri-lists at schlicker.org
Mon Jun 20 13:01:17 UTC 2005


Am Montag, den 20.06.2005, 12:56 +0200 schrieb Schlueri:
> Am Montag, den 20.06.2005, 10:18 +0200 schrieb Schlueri:
> > On a Dell Inspiron 9300 i'm unable to play dvd, because the dma is not
> > enabled. I think i'll run into problems if i try to burn cd/dvd.
> > 
> > Try to set dma with hdparm gives me the following error:
> > 
> > # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
> > 
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> > 
> > 
> > I found this:
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=279310#post279310
> 
> I've tried the things from fedoraforum and others i found with google
> but without success. Maybe i failed because i'm not a kernel expert. 

Just to complete my self-conversion. ;-) 

The Kernel-Hack from fedoraforum AND booting with 'ide1=noprobe' does
the trick... dvd playing is now smooth.






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