[MPlayer-users] How to start mplayer

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 29 March 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
[...] 
> From "man hdparm" I think following command may be appropriate
> 
> hdparm -c2d1u1 /dev/cdrom

Huh? How the hell did you come up with -c2? The manpage only mentions
0,1 and 3. You could use 3 or 1.

> I have a 32bit display card with 16MB memory.  Would -c3 be more 
> appropriate?  I am inexperience, if I am wrong, kindly correct me.

Why do you think _hd_parm (as in: hard drive) has anything to do
with display cards?? Where do you people get these strange ideas?

> > And since you
> > have RH7.3 I think you need some additional entry in
> > /etc/modules.conf
> > (check the archives of this list).
> 
> I used following search engine
> 
> Search:  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch
> 
> making searches and could not find the topic I need.  Could you please 
> shed me some light?  What is subject title?

OK, here it is:
options ide-cd dma=1

Remember though, that this option is needed only if you're using a kernel
packaged by RedHat.

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