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Old 19-Jun-2008, 16:49
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Default Re: Buying OpenSUSE?

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:26 +0000, natasaOpenSuse wrote:
> oldcpu;1820795 Wrote:
> > This is supported:
> > 'Matrix:Module-cmipci - AlsaProject'
> > (http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...:Module-cmipci)
> > If it didn't work for you, its because you had it configured wrong

>
> I know, but it doesn't work, and I don't see that I was able to do
> something wrong to prevent it from working (OpenSUSE 11rc1/10.3).
>
> oldcpu;1820795 Wrote:
> >
> > I've never had a DVD not recognized.

>
> Problem was in kernel & motherboard, not DVD. When supplied during boot
> parameter to use generic IDE it worked "fine", but slow.


That merely uses old style PIO mode to access the DVD through
the ide-generic driver. You don't want this ideally. Is it a
SATA DVD? Do you know what ide/data controller chipset you have?


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