On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:17, crak600 wrote: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > <big snips of my mistakes and corrections for them> > > > > > 32mb is plenty. Set the aperature to 32 also. You'll never need > > more than that. Most of the time you're only usin about 4mb of > > video ram, even at the resolutions you mentioned <I snipped>. A lot > > of onboard video ram is mostly a marketing gimmick. > > > > set what aperature?
this is a BIOS setting > > > i might be getting more experimental with video here as i go on. since i've > got the DVD drive now, i was talking to a friend about a DVD Decoder card, as > it will take the processing strain off the processor and give me more head > room there. if your computer CPU is better than 800MGz, a dvd decoder card is a waste, unless you intend to burn a cd in one drive and watch a dvd in a different drive, Just my opinion there. > using mplayer for DVD playback, my processor jumps from 60% > useage all the way to 90% at times during playback. never below 60% during > DVD playing, and i'm running an AMD 950MHz Slot A processor. if i start > composing an e-mail or doing extensive surfing at the same time, i'll hit > 100% processor use and the video playback will start to get choppy, but the > sound chugs along just fine most of the time. so getting something in there > to take some strain off the processor would be nice, and might even make the > graphics better during DVD playback. how much memory do you have,,,, that 800mhz was figuring 512 meg mem. > > > > > I dunno, I've never had that happen, and I have changed video > > cards before. I wouldn't worry about it tho. Probly an artifact > > left from an upgrade, rather than a fresh install. > > > > ok, won't worry about it. > > > > Sounds like all you've got left to do is get rid of the 'old' > > stanzas in lilo.conf. Actually you could'a removed them during the > > upgrade usin the installer's tool. Now just edit lilo.conf, delete > > them an re-run lilo. I believe you can also do this with a GUI in > > MCC. > > > > ok, will do. thanks a lot Tom, the help is greatly appreciated. i know i can > get to it through the MCC GUI, as i removed 'windows 2' from lilo that way. > 'windows 2' was my 2nd hard drive, which has no operating system on it, so it > was not needed in any way shape or form in the lilo. > > once again, thanks for your help. hopefully i can get it all right this time > and can soon just post a quick 'update' that all issues are resolved and i'm > back on track. :) > > Mike > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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