On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Ben Huot wrote: > > '"Oh and I read online that a guy who installed Linux on his system using my > model of laptop got real poor quality DVD on his system." > uhh... so... your point? ' > > My point was that since I only have 48 mb ram on my desktop and I have 128 mb > ram on my laptop, it is the only one that could really handle video, also it > is the only computer of mine that has DVD. > > But I guess if all you care about is theoretical support for video on Linux > it doesn't matter if it really runs on any given hardware. > > How specific do you want me to be?
When I was trying to get my Xircom pcmcia NIC working, I found several message that said they don't work. But now I have it working just fine. > Also under the FAQ for Ogle it has way too many bugs. So because, say, M$, doesn't have a FAQ listing known bugs means their products are not buggy? > When you go to linux > you can't always quick restore your computer, and it can permanently not > handle Windows. Not sure what you mean here. Could you expand on that please? > "I did not try to configure XFree86 until I installed version 4.0.3 (and > eventually 4.1.0). I used the 'trident' driver. My laptop has 8mb of VRAM. X > windows seems to work fine, except the Xvideo extension, which paints > distorted images. IIRC, X 4.2.0, which has been out for a while now, has improved XVideo support for several drivers. Not sure about your particular hardware. Is it a Trident Cyberblade? Are you using the kernel framebuffer driver? Was ogle compiled specifically for the hardware it's being used on? I don't have a dvd drive, but I've heard that optimizin ogle can make it work a lot smoother. > Finally I found > MPlayer , which supports DGA. That works nicely. So maybe use mplayer instead of ogle? Not every piece of free software is going to work perfectly on every piece of hardware. That's what bug lists are for, so the developers can know about and keep track of problems. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
