on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an > > > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM. > > > but, xine and ogle both appear to be dropping frames. > > > > > that same thread also suggests that this might be a DMA issue > > > (which VERA seems to define as "digital memory access"). how can > > > i enable > > > > Yo nori, > > > > You are sooo close! > > yeah, i can smell it :) > > > man hdparm > > hm, i have ... but i get: > > orange:~# hdparm /dev/dvd > /dev/dvd not supported by hdparm > > > & enable dma on your dvd player. > > how?
okay, let's see. the ogle faq seems to say that /dev/hdc is the same
as my /cdrom (i symlinked /dev/dvd to /cdrom, as that's where i have
that drive mount). how can i find out if this is the case?
doing an `hdparm /dev/hdc` shows dma to be already enabled on that
device. disabling it does nothing to help the frame dropping. so
maybe that's not the correct device?
thanks again!
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