correct me if I'm wrong but I think 8.1 chooses grub as the default bootloader not lilo.. In which case you shoyld be looking for the /etc/grub.conf file Forrest On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 13:14, David Herman wrote: > David Herman wrote: > > xine refuses to see my dvd if it is set as /dev/hdb, but will play > > it Sloooooowly if I use /dev sr0. Unfortunately this does not allow > > me to turn DMA on for the dvd player. > > Check /etc/lilo.conf. I have a DVD player on hdc and a CD writer on > hdd and so my lilo.conf (correctly) contains the line > append = "noapic acpismp=force hdd=ide-scsi" > My guess is that you have a line > append = "... hdb=ide-scsi" > If so try removing the 'hdb=ide-scsi' and see if you now get a hdb as > an (E)IDE drive. > If that works, try the following command (as root) before running > xine: /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdb > If that all works, add th line above to the end of > /etc/init.d/boot.local and everything should work smoothly. Thanks for your reply John, I just looked at my lilo.conf and there is no mention of either my dvd or my cdwriter. I have no "append=" lines currently so I guess I'll look into the available options I'll let you know how it turns out. thanks dh BTW hda is 80gb hard drive hdb should be dvd hdc is second 80gb hard drive hdd should be cdrewriter. I can mount and use all of my devices but can't turn dma on for any of them. ps sorry if you got this reply twice, I'm still trying to get the suse lists to recognize my new address -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-help@suse.com