On 29/01/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a recent Dell laptop, what would cause DVD playback to be very
> choppy?
I believe not having DMA enabled on the dvd drive can cause this. On
my Dell I have hdc=noprobe in the kernel parameters in grub.conf.
That seems to be enough to keep the drive working nicely.
No, still choppy. Unless I added it wrong:
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet hdc=noprobe
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet hdc=noprobe
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
[root@localhost ~]#
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