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I ran into this same thing when I was setting up my media center. I
resolved it by changing the version of mplayer I was using to a more
optimized version (from 386 to 686) and am currently using mplayer-nogui
1.0-pre7 which has been working quite wel
Hi,
DMA is enabled as far as I can see.
hdparm report "Capabilities" as :
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5*udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
dmesg shows :
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
i know this was just posted up but...
it really sounds like the dvd isn't running in DMA mode. i had this
problem on my thinkpad at first, dvd would be choppy as you suggest,
music i played would also be. fixed it by enabling DMA on the drives -
in my case it was actually using the wrong kernel mo
Is the DVD drive running in DMA mode? Almost certainly is, but worth a
quick check of dmesg.
--John
B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my Dell Insprion 9400 (1.83 Ghz dual core with 256Mb ATI Radeon
> x1400) DVD playing is much slower (choppy infact) as compared to
> my ancient 900 Mhz Athlong with RI
Hi,
On my Dell Insprion 9400 (1.83 Ghz dual core with 256Mb ATI Radeon
x1400) DVD playing is much slower (choppy infact) as compared to
my ancient 900 Mhz Athlong with RIVA TNT !.
This problem occurs wether I use the XFree86 Vesa driver or
the Proprietary ATI fglrx-driver. I configured the latter
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