On Tuesday 04 September 2001 05:42 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
This question is one that caused me a lot of headaches when I was trying to play DVDs in linux. It's distribution specific in a sense, but still...
Q) My CD/DVD is slower than in windows, and YaST system tuning has nothing to say about it
A) hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom turns on dma for the CD-player, even though YaST says it can't.
Good question and answer.... but the people I am targeting wouldn't even know where to type hdparm and wouldn't do it if they did because they'd be afraid the computer would yell WHHAAAAAATTT?????? at them and then explode. I'm doing this for the END USER.... the masses that can just barely spell komputur and they use the mouse like a tv remote... (hold it up and point it at the screen) :0) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/04/01 19:01 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ " It IS as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you."