Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:36 -0800
spmirowski <spmirowski(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to turn
> on DMA. Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices, hdparm
> can't tell them to turn on DMA. Any ideas how to get them blazing fast
> again?
>
Its always done automatically by libata.
Alan
Thanks,
It would appear the issue wasn't DMA, but nvidia-config omitted
something from my xorg.conf that allows hardware acceleration for XVideo.
Stephen