Vinai wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: } There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's not a Pismo? No: the original Lombard 400's had DVD drives, as well as a hardware DVD decoder. And it does have the HDI SCSI port at the back, so it is not a Pismo ;-)
Didn't know that, thanks.
} Playing DVDs will be the opposite of fun without the XVideo extension } which is only in XFree86 4.x and only officially in the r128 driver.
XVideo support for Mach64 is in the GATOS drivers available from linuxvideo.org (IIRC), though I don't know if those work on PPC; maybe Ani Joshi's tree has it as well, or maybe it's even in the current CVS, which should work fine. You'll have to find out.
} Besides, sound is choppy for me on a Pismo/400 with vlc, xine is } better but video isn't smooth; see the other recent thread about this. I hear you. It is just that all of the machines I have use some flavour of the ATI Mach64 chip, and the 2.2.** kernels allow me to do colour and resolution switching on the command line and at boot time. The kernel drivers in 2.4.+ have not been as well behaved (at least for me) and it was a little hard to jusitfy moving up to 2.4.+ without this hardware working ...
Maybe there are UDF patches for 2.2 (or do DVD players depend on other stuff from 2.4?) .
Note that kernel 2.2/4 and XFree86 3/4.x are orthogonal issues. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member