[vdr] Re: vcd-plugin, bad LIRC responsiveness

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 22:21, Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
> Am Samstag, 5. Juni 2004 21:55 schrieb Guido Fiala:
> > On Saturday 05 June 2004 21:45, Juri Haberland wrote:
> > > Guido Fiala wrote:
> > > > I observed a very very bad responsiveness for LIRC remote commands
> > > > during VCD-playback. It's not equal for all VCDs but noticeable. The
> > > > effect is, that most keypresses are ignored at all !
> > >
> > > Does it make a difference if you turn DMA on or off for the CDROM
> > > device?
> >
> > Just tested - no - makes no difference.
>
> Did you try hdparm -u1 on your CDROM device?

Ahh! that made it !! Thank you very much.
Now it works like a charm if DMA is on and unmask is also on.
Beside the warning mentioned in the man hdparm - is it a good idea to have 
this option set?

Guido