-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shirish Agarwal wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:11:04 +0530 > From: Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Some niggling issues in Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger > To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <plug-mail@plug.org.in> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >> > How to check if DMA is on in >> > Ubuntu? >> > man hdparm. > > Kaustubh > > Hi Kaustubh, > thnx for directing me to the man page of hdparm. Let me say > that I had looked that up before & wasn't able to make sense of the man > page. As had played with few GNU/Linux distros. before hence had some > idea but seriously the man pages need to go through some user-friendliness. > Anyway did :- > sudo hdparm -d /dev/hda & got ouput as dma on. while the same for cdrom > was not on hence gave > sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom & got as dma on. Hopefully I've done them > right. thnx for the help again. > > >
Regarding hdparm, There is /etc/hdparm.conf in which you can add line 'hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom'. But it doesn't seem to work somehow. Instead try editing /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and add above line to it. I tried with my dad's laptop which has combo drive and dvds now play really well. Regards, Onkar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDomqAEdJataruO48RAjw2AJ9exGjxu23dsoJbKdZg4qYZysWC9ACgnoPu HezzwTDLUtIuwMI85Vi6ReQ= =9bS2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
