Don't know how hard it will be, but why don't you try to recompile divx player/driver yourself? Probably you will get better improvement with this than playing with kernel if you are not short of memory or running many services at the same time. I have never played with Xfree, but it seems to me that you could get more improvement than playing with kernel in this precise case. If you want to have a look on recompiling divx stuff, you'll probably find in source files an archive called something like 'Makefile' in wich you can change the optimization levels for gcc. Most programs (including kernel) are optimized in level 2 (-O2) and compatible with any 386 or (as in Mandrake) compatible with classic Pentium. Maybe you can change this to your specific processor and change some optimizations: -O3 --> Mainly will tell gcc that it can re-order machine level instructions to minimize queues of instructions waiting to be procesed -march=athlon --> Object code will be athlon processor specific. Depending on your processor it will be i686, i586, pentium, ... See 'man gcc' for more information are there are more options, but they will probably give you less improvement.
I have had up to 12% improvement on a program I did myself just by using -O3 and processor specific. Another thing is trying to overclock a bit the graphic card and/or main board/processor. Good luck!!! (and tell us about!!! ;-)) El mar, 24-12-2002 a las 23:29, Olaf Marzocchi escribió: > I need to improve my box speed a bit because I can't watch divx well (the > skip only a bit). > Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from > kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ patches) > and xfree 4.2? > I have a mdk9 box. > If yes, which is the correct sequence to execute to compile xfree? I > already know how to prepare the kernel but I never compiled and installed > xfree. > > Thanks > > Olaf > > > <olaf@ kjws.com> for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/ ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos Consulta si tu número ha sido premiado en Yahoo! Sorteos http://loteria.yahoo.es
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