hard drive DMA? was:Re: [oclug] Scratchy sounds from XMMS

[james]

How did you enable DMA?

ttyl,
james

Trevor Curtis wrote:
> 
> I used to have problems with xmms too. Though this may not be
> advisable to everyone perhaps, my problem disappeared when I enabled
> DMA on my hard disks. Predictably, the overall speed of my system
> increased aswell.
> 
> Just a thought,
> --
> Trevor Curtis
> http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~tcurtis
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "The only people who have anything to fear from free software,
> are those whose products are worth even less."  --David Emery.
> _______________________________________________
> oclug mailing list
> oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug