On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:07, Gavin McCord wrote:
> Kyle Gordon wrote:
> >It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool.
> >/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm
>
> Make sure the kernel has support for your motherboard chipset in it. I
Kyle Gordon wrote:
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Colin
It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool.
/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm /dev/
on it's own will show the current state of the device.
My Celeron 1.2G
William Anderson wrote:
I had similar problems here under win2k when writing to CD/DVD or doing
bulk data transfers from optical - turned out both my DVD-ROM and
DVD+-RW were set to PIO. I reset them to DMA (UDMA in the writer's
case) and all was well with the world. As Kyle said, check those
Colin McKinnon wrote:
...off my laptop, that is.
After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz
/ 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video
frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much.
I had similar prob
Colin,
What distro are you using? I found that DVD playback was jerky when I was using Mandrake. Know that I'm on an optimised Gentoo everything is flawless.
If you build as much as you can from source with appropriate optimisation flags you may see an improvement.
Phil.
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Colin
It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool.
/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm /dev/
on it's own will show the current state of the device.
My Celeron 1.2Ghz, 128Mb laptop pl
ect: Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
> your machine just sent me its scoreboard about 20 times
>
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:23 PM
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your machine just sent me its scoreboard about 20 times
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From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
> ...off my laptop, that is.
...off my laptop, that is.
After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz
/ 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video
frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much.
Obviously there's not a lot of free mem
