[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem with playing mpeg2 files smoothly - Kernel upgrade

[Nico]

rr maybe  you are using the generice ide driver, rather than the one 
specific for your chipset

mgrim.freeler.nl wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
>>> I think that there must be a problem with the Kernel when trying to 
>>> use hdparm since I am getting:
>>>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>>
>
>> Try it logged in as root...
>
>
> Won't work (have tried this). I believe the problem lies in the fact 
> that the kernel is configured without DMA support. Look at the .config 
> file in /usr/src/linux. There must be something with IDEDMA (or 
> something). This should be =y. If it is not, I think you either need 
> to recompile your kernel with DMA support turned on, or you could get 
> a new kernel in which the DMA is set correctly already (this was my 
> choice).
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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