Which DVD player?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:17:22PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> I didn't know that Slackware already includes 'xine' package.  But, I
> have encountered another problem...
> 
> I have Samsung DVD and Via Apollo Pro 133A (Abit VP6 dual-P3).  This
> motherboard is practically new, and all my RAMs are good (checked with
> www.memtest86.com over-night).
> 
> When I try to run 'xine' (ie. xine -p dvd:/), I get an infinite loop of
> 
>     /var/log/syslog:
> 	hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> 	ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> 	hdc: ATAPI reset complete
> 	end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 299056
> 	Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 37382
>     
>     /var/log/messages:
> 	ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
> 
> which repeat every minute.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this before?  A DVD drive without DMA is pretty
> useless. :-(

Is DMA enabled or not on the drive right now?

Any chance it is CSS region coding stuff related?

Lennart Sorensen
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