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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:43:52 -0500
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@micro.ti.com>
To:        Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
Cc:        Coleman Kane <cokane@micro.ti.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD playback
Message-ID:  <20010119034352.B7735@cokane.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A67E28C.F7365861@bowtie.nl>; from marc@bowtie.nl on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:45:38AM -0500
References:  <20010117131850.A3402@cs.mcgill.ca> <3A670CA9.EEC14186@bowtie.nl> <20010118223509.B6278@cokane.yi.org> <3A67E28C.F7365861@bowtie.nl>

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set hw.atamodes to dma for the DVD device. I think the syntax is:
[dev1m],[dev1s],[dev2m],[dev2s],... where each [dev??] can be either pio or dma.
Ex: hw.atamodes=dma,---,dma,pio. (--- means not connected).
Marc van Kempen had the audacity to say:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
> > 
> > Strange. I have a K6-2 400Mhz wkstation with XF86 4.0, Matrox MGA G200 AGP card
> > and 128M RAM, and it didn't drop many frames from the movie trailers I used to
> > test it from the disc that came with the player. I don't know if they are the
> > same quality as the actual DVD movies or not though. Your player is using PIO4
> > which causes the CPU to wait a lot and causes it to be the gateway from memory
> > to DVD and vice versa. Mine is using UDMA2.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get it to use UDMA2?
> 
> Regards,
> Marc.
> 


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