[MPlayer-users] sluggish dvd playback...(faq suggestions don't help)

[Colin Leroy]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:23:19 -0600 christopher j bottaro
<cjb at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

Hi,

> [root at semaphore MPlayer-0.90rc1]# hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 /dev/cdrom
> /dev/cdrom:
>  setting fs readahead to 8
>  setting unmaskirq to 1 (on)
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

I get this one on a friend's pc too. I have no idea why it happens
(nothing in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/**, nothing understandable (for
me) in the kernel tree :-/).

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