From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:00:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:00:15 -0400 Received: from web3503.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.111.70]:17171 "HELO web3503.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:00:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20010619140011.15518.qmail@web3503.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:00:11 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mich=E8l=20Alexandre=20Salim?= Subject: PCMCIA DVD-ROM not detected when self-powered To: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I am setting up my notebook (Sony Vaio Picturebook C1VE) so that I can watch DVD under Linux, and one stumbling block is that (this is tested under Windows) the DVD drive has to be self-powered to get an acceptable performance - audio/video output is very slow when the drive is powered through PCMCIA, and this is under Windows with full acceleration. I have not managed to get the DVD drive (PCG-51A) detected by pcmcia-cs, using either the kernel pcmcia drivers or the standalone drivers. Wondering if I am missing something here.. Thanks in advance, Michel ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie