{"id":469,"date":"2007-02-11T22:36:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/11\/enabling-dma-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m-in-fedora-core-6"},"modified":"2007-02-11T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:38:17","slug":"enabling-dma-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m-in-fedora-core-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/11\/enabling-dma-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m-in-fedora-core-6","title":{"rendered":"Enabling DMA on the Dell Inspiron 640m in Fedora Core 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/11\/fedora-core-6-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m\">Continuing<\/a> in configuring the Dell Inspiron 640m (notice that no matter what you use, even Windows or OS X, you&#8217;ll never end up configuring these things on the first day), I needed to enable DMA. Running <code>hdparm \/dev\/hdc<\/code> I could verify this, so just adding <code>options libata atapi_enabled=1<\/code> to <code>\/etc\/modprobe.conf<\/code> was all that was needed to be done. Making sure GRUB had the <code>combined_mode=libata<\/code> option was also required.<\/p>\n<p>This speeds burns up &#8211; no waiting several hours for that DVD to write, it writes pretty quickly. And I got to say, the Places -> CD\/DVD Creator in the GNOME Menu is <em>really clever<\/em>. Kudos.<\/p>\n<p>GNOME&#8217;s Keyboard Shortcuts actually pick up all the hardware control buttons, save for the MediaDirect button (which I&#8217;m sure can be enabled, I just have to play with xmodmap soon I think). However, with 2.6.19 the sound buttons do not work (they do in 2.6.18). More oddness to poke around.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, this is a quick entry to mainly test <a target=\"_parent\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtk.sourceforge.net\/\">BloGTK<\/a> (boy, do I miss ecto) and see if it has advanced\/sensible tagging (I was hoping to get Technorati styled tags, ala ecto.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing in configuring the Dell Inspiron 640m (notice that no matter what you use, even Windows or OS X, you&#8217;ll never end up configuring these things on the first day), I needed to enable DMA. Running hdparm \/dev\/hdc I could verify this, so just adding options libata atapi_enabled=1 to \/etc\/modprobe.conf was all that was needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-7z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}