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1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel |
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configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to |
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know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) |
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2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you |
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can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially the section about |
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dma: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance#DMA_mode_-d |
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3)can you give the url of the blog? |
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hope that i helped... |
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O/H Colleen Beamer έγραψε: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> |
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> A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having |
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> problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, |
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> but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I |
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> tested me theory .... my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega |
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> external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop. I attached the |
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> drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine. |
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> |
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> I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a |
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> Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to |
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> hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone |
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> who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said |
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> was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the |
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> kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then |
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> recompile the kernel. |
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> |
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> Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I |
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> thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> |
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> Colleen |
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> |
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