Michel D�nzer wrote: > > Vinai wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D�nzer 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?) .
2.2 kernels have had support for DVDs since at least 2.2.17. a
