From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G6aat-0007V0-8M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:14:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SMBnxu003890; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:11:49 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6SM9bjx023297 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:09:37 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so721935pyd for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:09:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=G6JeaGlQ0YQRqxeV0rqbIzifmpMOd12X2zvc3aPvbQS5oAkoiB9cDqBWARmWDt2eP9TILxlzMyTpNweCPNL0DoT5J756M9nmdNLM4TphODQvR+hGwpNU2n2Q6eOQ8Meg0DT2/JiksYhTbEMMVaqfAqdce5i8VKgGA5VLJCAd3aw= Received: by 10.35.63.2 with SMTP id q2mr15013199pyk; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [210.0.108.13]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r66sm1485539pye.2006.07.28.15.09.35; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:09:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to activate dma mode Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:39:27 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200607281506.25021.stefi@geohidroterv.hu> <200607282244.45670.dystopianray@gmail.com> <44CA699F.5000101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44CA699F.5000101@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607290739.27867.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k6SM9bjx023297 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k6SMBn0R003890 X-Archives-Salt: dba53253-f04e-435c-804a-928c5af1ddc1 X-Archives-Hash: 4572bd15045e955862cd5ee794de8140 On Saturday, 29 July 2006 5:16, gentuxx wrote: > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > > On Friday, 28 July 2006 22:36, Stef=E1n Istv=E1n wrote: > >> Hello! > >> I'm not able to activate dma mode for cdrom drive in my laptop. > >> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd > >> > >> /dev/hdd: > >> setting using_dma to 1 (on) > >> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > >> using_dma =3D 0 (off) > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> I think the problem is that there is no driver for this chipset comp= iled > >> into the kernel. But I don't know which driver should be compiled in= to. > >> I tried Intel PIIXn but it didn't help. > >> > >> Thanks for the help in advance, > >> Istv=E1n > > > > You will need to set CONFIG_IDE=3Dn, enable SCSI cdrom support > > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) and enable the Intel PIIX sata driver > > (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX). > > Isn't this deprecated? Wouldn't a better choice be to install the > SATA driver ebuild? (Mainly trying to eliminate my own confusion here.= ) No, libata is most certainly not deprecated and what ebuild are you talki= ng=20 about? > > > DMA should then work perfectly fine. However one side effect is that = your > > cdrom drive will become /dev/sr0, although I guess this can be fixed > > with a > > > udev rule. --=20 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list