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[eddie <eddie.howson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 Jun 2003 2:49 am, Rick Friedman wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to the list saying that I was having
> problems with DVD playback. The playback was stuttering and very jerky.
> DMA was already enabled for the drive so that wasn't it.
>
> Well, last night I made a change to a setting that has solved the
> problem. DVD playback is now as smooth as silk.
>
> The setting I changed was as follows:
>
> In YAST2->SYSTEM->Powertweak Configuration, under the configuration
> options, I expanded the "Hardware" option. Then, I expanded the "Disk"
> choice followed by the "HDD" (my DVD drive device) choice.
>
> Two more choices then present themselves. The first,
> "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" is the one that I adjusted. The default
> value was 128. I lowered it to 64. That did it.
>
> I just wanted to post this in case there's someone else out there having
> the same problem I had. First & foremost, make sure you have DMA set for
> your DVD drive. If it is, and you still have jerky playback, try the
> above.
>
> Rick

Thanks Rick,

Your posting is very useful because I do still have a jerky playback despite 
having set the DMA.   I'll give it a try later.

Eddie