On Friday 06 June 2003 08:04 am, John Lapeyre wrote: > This is probably not debian specific, but I have been revisiting this > problem for a couple of years and searching on the web and am stumped. > > Dvd is too slow to view a dvd (I've tried a bunch of programs, am > using vlc now) I have to copy the files to hard drive. But the > transfer is slow, about 1MB/s and the desktop has bad very response > time during this time and the system clock runs very slow. The mouse > in particular will hang for a second or so at a time.
You probably don't have DMA activated. I have my DVD on /dev/hdc, and I do this as root: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc Then, if this works, you can put a script on /etc/init.d and a link to it in /etc/rcS.d, so DMA gets activated during boot-up.... however I am not very sure about this last step, I've never done it in debian (only in SuSE), so maybe one of the more learned debianites can tell us about it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
