Subject: Re: Can't get DVD to use DMA
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 05:45:21 AKDT
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 00:40, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Yes, it is in my kernel. catting and grepping the config file comes up
> with this:
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
> # CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
> # CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA100=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
> CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=m
> # CONFIG_DMASCC is not set
>
>
> I've been looking around on Google all night, and the best lead I found
> was a message here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg00123.html
>
> The guy was having the same problem as I am having, with the same
> chipset as mine (KT333) and almost the same kernel (he had 2.4.18-bf2.4,
> I have 2.4.18-19.7.x)
>
> The guy who answered him said pretty matter-of-factly that he needed to
> upgrade his kernel. There's no reply saying if this worked or not, but
> I will try it out I guess - I've been looking for a good excuse to
> upgrade this machine from RedHat 7.3 anyway. :) Now, just to decide
> between RedHat 9 and Gentoo 1.4.
>
> Justin
Get a new kernel :) The IDE drivers get better in newer kernels.
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