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 > > > > ok, do you have a working hpet? or do you have compiled pm-timer support > > into your kernel (you should)? and set hdparm -u1 for your ide devices? > > I switched hdparm to the boot runlevel and there are no errors, but I > only noticed hdparm output regarding hda (CDROM) and not sda (SATA > HD). Is there a way to verify that sda is configured properly as far > as hdparm? > > - Grant
you don't need to do anything with SATA. Just make sure that you are using the right drivers (and not the generic ones ;) ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
