Now that I'm taking some time off, I started to look further into tweaking this box. One common problem was that I didn't care for a PERCEIVED slowness in my nVidia 16X performance, and of course because of well known continual driver problems blamed nVidia that I had to reduce the color depth to 16 so that DVDs would play without any "jerkyness".
Today I was checking out a lot of hardware settings and found that the second DVD drive, a non-writer, wasn't set properly by openSUSE. The writer's DMA setting was ultra133, but it was off for the 2nd drive. I set it for ultra133 and then tested it ripping DVDs, etc., to see if it would do so accurately.....no losss. It did.....great! Then I had the "wild" idea that just maybe with better transfer rates, I'd change the video setting back to 24 bit and see if the "jerky" display while playing a DVD returned. It didn't! So, if you have that problem, play around with the DMA settings on your DVD drive. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
