[ltp] DVD cpu usage

[Eben King]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Joan Roig Amorss wrote:

> I am pretty happy with my new system, but I noticed that now playing DVDs 
> takes >50% of cpu usage, up to 70% with Kaffeine/xine (it used to be ~10%). 
> Now I cannot watch movies when in battery power. 

Check with "hdparm" that your DVD drive (/dev/hdc?) isusing DMA.

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