>On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames
What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to
Nope, it's an ATI Radeon 7xxx (don't remember exact model).
Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-(
Don't install the 9.2 version of mplayer on 10.0, there will be dependency problems.
Yes, I tried and gave up due to the dependencies issues (didn't want to spend too much time on it). Now I'm back to 9.2 :-(
accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the default mandrake kernels not include dma support? If they do, then I'm not sure what to do about the
You are wrong :-) My understanding is that MDK (or the Linux kernel, not sure which) enables DMA for a drive by default, then disables it if it detects errors on drive access. On my other box, a 10.0 system, hdparm reports DMA enabled for the HDs, disabled for the CDROM (an old drive which I suspect does not support it).
I remember somebody defining 10.0 "speed daemon" so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance?
It is a speed "daemon" :). No but really, its fast.
Ok, demon :-). Anyway, I have to confirm my first impression. The 10.0 box is slower to react to GUI, slower to rip CDs, slower to mp3-encode them. Not much, but it can be appreciated. BTW, I got a confirmation on the first web article I googled: 2.6 better for server, equal or less than 2.4 for dektop. (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html)
bye,
raffaele
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