Ubuntu
linux-source-2.6.15 package

  1. Bug #36185 (cdrom-dma)
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 36185

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(In reply to comment #17)
> To make it clear on the importance of this bug: this makes DVDs unwatchable on
> almost every machine I've installed Ubuntu on.

Yes, this is unfortunate, but to be clear:

Enabling DMA by default on CD-ROMs makes it impossible for many users to even
INSTALL Ubuntu, which is much worse.

DVDs can't be played on Ubuntu out of the box anyway, unfortunately, for
non-technical reasons.