https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237164 Summary: openSuse 10.2 turns off DVD drive DMA all by itself when DVD movie starts playing Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: rmuncrief@comcast.net QAContact: qa@suse.de OS: openSuse 10.2 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Processor: Ahtlon 64 3000+ Video: Nvidia 7800GT Sound: Integrated AC7 RAM: 1GB Hard Disks: SATA Maxtor 6V200E0, SATA Western Digital WD1200JS CD-ROM: Sony CDU5221 DVD-RW: Lite-On LH-18A1P I installed openSuse 10.2 to see if Linux worked yet. One of the many killer reasons its still not useable is because it's turning off the DMA on DVD drives, all by itself. When I first boot into the OS and look at my DVD drives DMA setting in Yast it is correctly set to UltraDMA 66. However, the minute I try to play a DVD your OS actually turns the DMA off. I can actually watch it happen with Yast. It's also impossible to turn the DMA back on again until I stop playing the DVD. I made sure I had all of the latest updates (as of today) and have tried to install Linux many times over the last decade so I naturally looked everywhere on the Internet to try to find an answer to the problem, but what I found was that currently Linux has problems with DMA in general. Sheesh. I don't know why I waste my time. You really should stop claiming Linux is "technically superior" to anything. Currently it has massive DMA problems, and a bug that has existed for over two years that makes it impossible for people to turn on the SPDIF output unless they know the magic trick of installing "aumix" and hitting mute/unmute. And getting TV Out?. Even with the latest high end video cards you have to go back, back, back, to 1989 and hand hack some file called "xorg.conf" to get a barely useable overscanned display that overflows the screen. Sheesh again people. Why don't you fix the basic things that make your OS completey useless before going on to a "better" GUI. Lord almighty, do you realize it's 2007 and there still has never been one, not one, functioning Linux desktop that could replace Windows? I sure wish there were, because I would buy it in a heartbeat. Oh yeah. People also need to browse the Internet, with full multimedia support, in 2007. Linux currently has a few extremely poor quality browser plugins that can play some media, sometimes, but even then you can't rewind, fast forward, pause, etc. I mean honestly, I'm an engineer and if this were my product these problems would be fixed in a matter of months, not decades. It's just very, very, unfortunate that Linux always has been, and it appears will continue to be, an unuseable mess, and no one developing it has ever seemed to give a hoot. And yeah, I know. It's not Linux's fault, or the Linux development communities fault, it's always someone elses fault. Usually Microsofts. Well, your red herrings don't fly anymore. Either make an OS that works and is worth spending money on, or stop wasting the worlds time. We're just sick of it. Plain and simple. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.