Re: Ogle crashes after playing for around 1 minute - solved, I hope

Tue Aug 03 2004, Jesper Holck wrote:

> Yes, everything seems to work now. Before running hdparm,
> I was able to watch (some of) the Simon and Garfunkel DVD
> with Xine, but with lots of noise in the picture - both Ogle
> and Mplayer crashed. Now both Ogle and Xine shows beautiful
> pictures. I didn't think of running hdparm, because all the
> information I could find said that you should just enable DMA
> - and hdparm showed DMA to be enabled for the DVD drive.
> 

You probably have one of the chipsets that have problems
with faster dma modes in linux (maybe a via chipset?).
Seems like you got data corruption/loss when running with faster dma
modes before and hdparm -X33 fixed it by setting a slower dma mode.

/Bj|rn