Everything works, but not from the box. First you have to know, that there is a technical and a legal problem. The technical can be solved easier, so first I will describe this one:
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) '_NEC ' 'DVD+RW ND-5100A ' '10AC' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
Nevertheless you can enable the DMA mode of the DVD-ROM using the hdparm command:
linux:~# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
The easiest way to test, wheter the DMA mode is working, is to watch a DVD film. Unfortunately SUSE LINUX does not contain any working DVD player. This is not because the SUSE guys are lazy, but for legal reasons. To watch DVD movies, you need to update the xine-lib and the kaffeine or the xine-ui package. If you also want to watch encrypted DVD-s, then you also need the libdvdcss package. As in Hungary neither of them is forbidden, you can download this 4 packages here (right click -> Save as...).
These packages are for SuSE Linux 9.2. They may work with older versions also:
xine-lib (you need it)
libdvdcss (you need it for watching encrypted DVD-s)
And one of these two packages as graphical user interfaceAnd these for SuSE Linux 9.0:
xine-lib (you need it)
libdvdcss (you need it for watching encrypted DVD-s)
And one of these two packages as graphical user interfaceI recommend you to download them all to the /tmp directory, then install them as root with the following command:
linux:/tmp # rpm -Uvh *.rpm
If you installed the packages mentioned above, you still can't watch divx or mov movies. For this, you need a package, containing all the current video codecs. As this package contains some "hacked" Windows DLL-s, it might be not totally legal to distribute it, but if you use it just for watching movies you should get no problems. You can download this codecs from the mplayer homepage.
Have fun with SUSE LINUX 9.0 on Dell Inspiron 8600!