DMA no active on HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

Hello!

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Angka H. K. wrote:
> The output is the same and my drive is set to WMDA2. It's run faster then
> PIO4.

  OK, nice to know.

> I was trying to verify what I have done, by reinstalling Linux on my 
> mechine. The result : On Linux my drive is using DMA (not UDMA or WDMA) and 
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  This is either mwDMA or UDMA - hardware is only capable doing one of these
modes (besides PIO). Linux just doesn't tell you which kind of *DMA it's 
using.

> run smoother when
> playing DVD. I use MPlayer from CVS and compile for FreeBSD and Linux. I use
> fedora on it with xorg 7 build-in while FreeBSD using xorg 7 from CVS. The
> exception for this is Fedora using DRI and FBSD 7 not using DRI.

  DRI can really make a big difference!


Sincerely, Dmitry
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