[MPlayer-users] Problem with playing mpeg2 files smoothly - Kernel upgrade

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Tuesday, 2 September 2003, Konstantinos Karydas wrote:

> I think that there must be a problem with the Kernel when trying to
> use
> hdparm since I am getting:
> ---------------------------------
> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> ----------------------------------
> I am using Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Kernel version 2.4.18-3) on a VIA
> EPIA-M 1000
> with a CLE266 Processor and 128Mb Ram and of course I am root when I
> try
> that. But I get this strange "Operation not permitted" message. So
> are there
> any other suggestions than upgrading the Kernel? If I have to upgrade
> the
> Kernel finally how can I do that? I've never done this before. Is
> this a
> difficult and risky operation for the stability of my system? Which
> Kernel
> version would you recommend in the case I finally upgrade? Where can
> I find
> it?

 Get the latest kernel update from redhat for redhat 7.3:
ftp://mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/