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