Problems with DVD Playback

Hendrik Visage hvisage at envisage.co.za
Wed Jan 28 09:13:02 GMT 2004


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:05:49AM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:24:57PM -0500, Drew Swayze wrote:
> > hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hdx (whatever drive is your dvd)
> > 
> > DVD playback is now just fine again on my machine.
> 
> Beware of certain DVD writers (especially) and also beware of
> DVD-rom/CDRW after you've wirtten CDs, and beware of 2.6.1 with this
> mix.

OH, before I forget to mention, I have the feeling (from other posts I
read/viewed elsewhere) that it might also be a problem in latish 2.4.2x
kernels, as they might share the same troublesome ide-dma.c code :(



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