On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:04 -0800, spmirowski wrote:
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.
... and that was? Inquiring minds would like to know! :) Ric
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