On Mittwoch, 22. August 2007, Grant wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running an amd64 athlon x2 2.6ghz with 2gb ram and video > > > > > > > playback stutters if I try to play a video after the system has > > > > > > > been running for awhile, even after closing all programs. > > > > > > > Restarting always fixes it. How would you track this down? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - Grant > > > > > > > > > > > > Look at your RAM usage with "free -m" (the second line is > > > > > > interesting). > > > > > > > > > > > > Look at your log files (especially dmesg) for anything > > > > > > suspicious. Maybe your graphic card's driver fell back to a > > > > > > compatibility mode or something like that. > > > > > > > > > > or (in case of NVIDIA) it has thrown a 'Xid' error - after that you > > > > > can be called lucky if video works at all ... > > > > No Xid error. I did have this: > > > > warning: many lost ticks > > Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging > > interrupts > > This issue is discussed here: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=191716 > > > and then a whole bunch of these: > > > > TCP: Treason uncloaked! > > This issue is discussed here: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=354939 > > I'm going to start a new thread about that. Hopefully one or both of > these problems is causing my video/sound stuttering issue. > > - Grant
the tcp... message has nothing to do with your stuttering. Get hpet or pm-timer working and use -ui on your harddisks and cd/dvd drives - and make sure that dma works. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
