On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:48:32PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: >On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:58:13PM -0500, Loren Burlingame wrote: >> >most of the dvd playing apps are set by default to look for /dev/dvd and >> >/dev/rdvd. You should be able to configure that or just make symlinks >> >ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/dvd >> >ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/rdvd >> >> you are correct sir. I was (once again) looking for an elephant with a >> magnafying glass. > >No, he is not correct. Gee thats funny. Then explain how my dvd-rom works just fine without that? And I'm pretty sure the person I responded to got thiers working too. > >There is someting else "raw" related to I/O in Linux. >There is a "raw-io" capability in Linux that allows one to bypass >the page/buffer/etc cache, to allow certain application >(databases for example) to work on the "bare metal". > >See http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-8.html for an >example of how to setup them. > >florin > >-- > >"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > >41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020612/a103e052/attachment.pgp