On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:08 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the > > disc. > > xine perhaps? Although mplayer tends to work too.
Codeine is a frontend to xine, and gives me some info on the settings I can change in xine as well. The one setting that _seemed_ to make any difference was the one concerning a pitch alignment workaround for buggy (video) drivers. Still had problems, which xine reports as dropped frames due to age. > > > I disabled everything else including xscreensaver, and shutdown folding > > @home as well. Essentially no processes outside that of the system and > > X, excepting evolution. I run fluxbox for WM. > > > > I have 2 Gb Mushkin memory. > > > > ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from > > the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in > > what the player has to do to get things to work? > > That only applies to audio CDs. OK. Good to know. > > > I saw a fair amount of output from codeine about dropped frames (being > > too old) as well as other issues. I can post some of that in a separate > > email. > > Any chance DMA isn't enabled for the DVD drive? That would cuase a ton > of extra cpu work reading the drive and make it read much slower too. > > cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma > > Replace hda with whatever the DVD drive is. > > I have this: > using_dma 1 0 1 rw Ahh. I had not seen this earlier when I scanned your letter briefly before answering someone else's up the list. My result: using_dma 0 0 1 rw Looks like I need to turn on dma with hdparm. If that works, I can place it into rcS.d, yes? > The first value is current, followed by min and max. 1 means using dma, > 0 means not using dma. Usually if you don't have DMA, you have the > wrong ide driver loaded for your IDE chipset. Usually the debian > kernels are quite good at detecting and loading the right drivers from > the initrd, but sometimes it needs help. Well, I have an MSI K9A Platinum, with the SB600 controller. I have to boot with nomsi/irqpoll kernel options, and currently have msi left out of the kernel configuration altogether. I'm uncertain about any kernel configuration items I might want to activate. I think I need to burrow into the board's handbook for other chips which might be a part of the system. I will get into the BIOS configuration to look at the ide settings (DMA mode, etc.), but was curious how much difference that makes to the kernel, as I have always had the impression that Linux works more or less independently of the BIOS once it has booted up. Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. --Ferdinand Magellan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
