Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> 1)if  you mean that you have no experince with kernel
> configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to
> know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;)
>   

I've built the kernel many times using 'genkernel --menuconfig all'.  I
meant that the blog I read said to go in and edit the kernel header file
and place a certain line of text into it related to DMA
> 2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you
> can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially the section about
> dma:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance#DMA_mode_-da
>   
 
I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled
into it.  It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or without
DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to
play an audio CD.
> 3)can you give the url of the blog?
>   

As requested, the blog address is:

http://krosswindz.blogspot.com/2005/10/gentoo-linux-on-dell-inspiron-9300.html


Regards,

Colleen
> hope that i helped...
> O/H Colleen Beamer έγραψε:
>   
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having
>> problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop .  It takes me a while,
>> but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa.  Today, I
>> tested me theory .... my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega
>> external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop.  I attached the
>> drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine.
>>
>> I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a
>> Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to
>> hear audio CD's when using kscd.  I googled and found a blog by someone
>> who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive.  All that really was said
>> was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the
>> kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then
>> recompile the kernel.
>>
>> Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I
>> thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Colleen
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