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

[Angka H. K.]

On 5/15/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> ------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>   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.


How can I verify this ? I want to know which DMA is active or there is no
way to do it ?


> 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!


I use xv though to play this (-vo xv). Is xv using DRI ?


Sincerely, Dmitry
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