As far as I can tell, gutsy just disabled DMA on the CD-ROMs on both my bog-standard Dell desktop and my Thinkpad X40. This is not obscure hardware, and yet I can't watch DVDs without jerking on a 3Ghz processor.
Any information you need, I'll provide. But please sort this out. Gerv -- hdparm - cannot set dma on IDE hard drive that works via pata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110636 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs