[ale] disabling DMA

[PBoyington at polyengineering.com (Preston Boyington)]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> I am using Suse 9.1.
> I enabled DMA for /dev/hdaX using Yast2
> DMA seems to be causing some problem that will not allow me to boot
> into X. 
> 
> How can I disable it using the command line?

should you reboot you can tell it not to use DMA with the "Safe Mode"