On 9 Oct 2002, Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:30, Matt Whiteley wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 21:13, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > > I have a 686B and don't have those problems. Try turning off magicdev. > > > Or killing it. Or forcibly removing it (with extreme prejudice). > > > > > > -- > > > Chris Kloiber > > > > Chris I killed magicdev and it helped somewhat. If I click on a window > > while cdda2wav or cdrecord is running it will now gain focus however the > > mouse cursor still moves in choppy bits. > > Sounds like the DMA is off still. Is it a burner (ide-scsi) or a reader > (ide-cd). > > If it's a burner, edit /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdX and set DMA=1 (X is > a,b,c, or d). > > If it's a reader, do the above, then add to /etc/modules.conf the line: > 'options ide-cd dma=1' save the file. Unmount and remove all cd's. Then > as root, do: > > # depmod -a > # rmmod ide-cd > # modprobe ide-cd > # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX (where X is again a, b, c, or d) it's certainly true (at least on my machine) that the system becomes totally unusable during the final fixating stage when burning a CD. but during the burn itself, things still seem to work reasonably well. rday
