I too had problem playing DVD's in SuSE8.0 until I compiled my own kernel. There was no way I could get dma working on the DVD drive using the standard SuSE8.0 kernel. So if you are running the suse-kernel I'd suggest trying to compile a more recent kernel. Cheers! /Adam On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 21:26, michael norman wrote:
Hi all
For a long time I have been able to get dvd play in SuSE using xine. Until recently when my Relysis dvdrom drive died. Fortunately I got a replacement AOPEN drive as the old one was still within guarantee. Unfortunately I can only get choppy dvd replay using xine and the new drive. The solution to this in the past has been to set dma on the drive. This I have done using both yast2 and hdparm from the command line. But I still get choppy dvd even immediately after setting dma on the drive, When I check whether dma is still on immediately after playing a dvd it is off again. My conclusion is that xine (and I have just repeated this using Ogle is that invoking a dvd playing programme is turning off dma before the dvd starts. I have also checked that if I set dma, don't use xine or ogle that it is still set on reboot. FWIW dvd replay with this drive with dma set is perfect in w98. But I want to watch dvds in linux.
Is it really possible that both these programmes are turning off dma as soon as I use them ?. Would putting the relevant command in a startup script help ? If so which one.
I am somewhat baffled.
TIA
Mike
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