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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: billy_gates on 10 February 2003, 01:54

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: billy_gates on 10 February 2003, 01:54

I finally got xine installed, but it claims I don't have DMA turned on.  It gives this error.

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Note - I don't know why RH8 didn't call my DVD drive  /dev/dvd but it didn't.
Then on that error box there is an OK button,  I click that and it says

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I looked in the modules.conf file and I indeed do not have those lines, but when I try hdparm it says that the command doesn't exist.  How do I turn DMA on for my DVD?

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: Stryker on 10 February 2003, 01:56

hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom i think should do it, it's been a while since i've messed with hdparm though. try: man hdparm and read up in there

and you need to be root to use hdparm


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and did you try adding those lines to the file?

[ February 09, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: KernelPanic on 10 February 2003, 02:57

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I looked in the modules.conf file and I indeed do not have those lines, but when I try hdparm it says that the command doesn't exist.  How do I turn DMA on for my DVD?

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su -

The hyphen is important.

[ February 09, 2003: Message edited by: Tux ]

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: billy_gates on 10 February 2003, 04:15

I guess you guys didn't read all the way through.

when I type in hdparm it says command not found, as in I don't have it.  Where/how do I get it.

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: flap on 10 February 2003, 04:31

Tux was suggesting you should do "su -" if you're not already. If you're just doing "su" you won't be able to see hdparm as it'll be in /sbin which isn't in your path.
You should have it installed by default on RH8 I think, but if you don't it's on the first cd.

Title: Turning DMA on
Post by: billy_gates on 10 February 2003, 06:10

oh, ok.

Unfortunately,  I can't get to my RedHat until around next friday.