Re: [xine-user] Jumpy movies, can't set the DMA

[Allen J. N. <an...@al...>]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Subject: Re: [xine-user] Jumpy movies, can't set the DMA
> Date: 04 Dec 2002 22:13:04 -0800

> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:13, Allen J. Newton wrote:
> > 
> > With RedHat 8.0, they decided you didn't NEED DMA on your CDROM/DVD.
> 
> No, "they" decided too many broken motherboards/CD-ROMs out there have
> problems when enabling DMA, so better enable it manually (if you know
> what you are doing).

"They" did that a few releases ago.  If you knew what you were doing, you
could enable DMA with hdparm.  Now you can't, unless...

> > Why they decided not to document this anywhere is beyond me...  :-(
> 
> Of course, you didn't bother to read the file named RELEASE-NOTES which
> is in the very root directory of the install kit CD, and which really is
> the very first thing you should read before installing a new version,
> and which states clearly:

Yes, I stand corrected.  It's way down there at the bottom, and I didn't (but
should have) read closely all the way down there.  I stand corrected (twice,
now).

But it doesn't come up on RedHat's search.

They might as well have just patched that module, and, hey!  I guess I better
not give them any ideas.  With RedHat 8.1, we'll have to recompile the kernel
if we want DMA on our CDROMs.

I'm actually more pissed about their installing Metastasy as the default
window manager.  I installed from "Select every package" Sawfish, and there
was absolutely no way to select Sawfish as my window manager!  And _THAT
ISN'T_ documented in the Release Notes!  I'm surprised they even included
Sawfish on the installation media.

It took a bit of web research and the fact that others had figured out what to
do about it before me to discover that firstboot and metacity packages had to
be removed, and then Gnome would default to sawfish -- what happened to our
CHOICE?

Very Microsoft-like for them to take that choice away and decide what's "best"
for us!  :-(  Oh, and removing ee, mpg123 and netscape, but those were more
easily rectified...

But I'm definitely ranting way off-topic here, so I'll stop now.  You're
welcome...

> > (Mutters, RedHat looks more like Microsoft every release...)
> 
> Yes, and also "they", the alien warlords, Saddam and the Illuminati play
> polka in an underground hangar at Area 51.

No, no, no, not Saddam, he's just a peon in the Order.  You're thinking of
Elvis.  The Illuminati is the group he joined up with after leaving this
planet...  ;-)

-- 
Allen J. Newton  (an...@al...)