Re: Dvd,dvd,dvd...

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mine is set to 0. SO I did sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 and it says:

sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only

Why is that?

atacontrol has shown me that the device was in PIO4, so I set it to 
UDMA4 instead(which is what my drive should be using as it supports it), 
but then my dvds couldnt be read so I tried UDMA2 and it improved it 
heaps though not perfect, and it seems that mplayer seems to crash more :S.

dmesg shows:
acd0: DVD-R <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109> at ata1-master PIO4

Is this an indication that DragonFly perhaps needs a more modern/recent 
ATA code?

Cheers.
Petr

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:03:00PM +1000, Petr Janda wrote:
>   
> > Xine looks horrible(and skins dont work) and xine menus behave very 
> > weirdly and slowly, I decided to try gxine, but it freezes on start up. 
> > watching dvds in mplayer is unwatchable (skips many many frimes). Ive 
> > never had similar problems in Linux where dvd playback was always smooth.
> >     
>
> Check that hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 is set. Otherwise you can active it with
> atacontrol as well.
>
> Joerg
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