Update on Ubuntu and my Church Laptop

[Don Erickson]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jon Moss wrote:

> The DVD playback is a little choppy so I need to investigate how much RAM
> was "donated" with the laptop.  And that may not make a difference . . .
> may just be the age of the laptop or the norm for Totem Movie player.

My money says that "# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc" will take care of the 
choppiness.  All that does is allow DMA for the dvd drive.  I'm assuming 
that /dev/hdc is the dvd, if not, then season to taste.

This can be allowed whenever a dvd is mounted by adding the following 
lines to /etc/default/hdparm :

harddisks="/dev/hdc"
hdparm opts="-d1"


Regards,

-Don