DVD choppy

[Todd Zullinger]

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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