Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:07, Gavin McCord wrote: > Kyle Gordon wrote: > >It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool. > >/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm > > Make sure the kernel has support for your motherboard chipset in it. I > created a custom kernel recently and tried hdparm till I was blue in the > face, until I compiled in the right driver. > Hmmm. Sounded good. Unfortunately my Suse 9.0 install recognised it was also a CD writer and setup SCSI emulation - and you can't run hdparm on a SCSI drivebut its still talking to the IDE drive...so I tried your suggestion on /dev/hdc, and turned on 32bit I/O for good measureand Hey Presto! it worked. In fact it worked so well I've decided to use it on all my hard drives ;) Remind me to buy you a pint after the next meet. Thanks also to Lawrence for the suggestion to check the fb device. Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
Kyle Gordon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool. /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm /dev/ on it's own will show the current state of the device. My Celeron 1.2Ghz, 128Mb laptop played back DVDs fine with mplayer, so I doubt it's a memory/horsepower issue. Regards Kyle On Monday 19 January 2004 23:23, Colin McKinnon wrote: ...off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? TIA Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADHpel4cZwpbv7iIRAuV6AJ0QdVl+g9aoT4E3nYvxZAIS9hmz+ACeLcA3 uXszmBHj8h3DOZAMXz7Z5Tk= =oJ3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Make sure the kernel has support for your motherboard chipset in it. I created a custom kernel recently and tried hdparm till I was blue in the face, until I compiled in the right driver. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
William Anderson wrote: I had similar problems here under win2k when writing to CD/DVD or doing bulk data transfers from optical - turned out both my DVD-ROM and DVD+-RW were set to PIO. I reset them to DMA (UDMA in the writer's case) and all was well with the world. As Kyle said, check those settings out and fiddle! :) Exact same probs here, there's plenty of doc's out there in Google land that will help you! :) -- Regards, Daragh http://www.daraghmcg.org ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
Colin McKinnon wrote: ...off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. I had similar problems here under win2k when writing to CD/DVD or doing bulk data transfers from optical - turned out both my DVD-ROM and DVD+-RW were set to PIO. I reset them to DMA (UDMA in the writer's case) and all was well with the world. As Kyle said, check those settings out and fiddle! :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ "When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb." -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re:[Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
Colin, What distro are you using? I found that DVD playback was jerky when I was using Mandrake. Know that I'm on an optimised Gentoo everything is flawless. If you build as much as you can from source with appropriate optimisation flags you may see an improvement. Phil. --- Begin Message --- ..off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? TIA Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish --- End Message --- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool. /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm /dev/ on it's own will show the current state of the device. My Celeron 1.2Ghz, 128Mb laptop played back DVDs fine with mplayer, so I doubt it's a memory/horsepower issue. Regards Kyle On Monday 19 January 2004 23:23, Colin McKinnon wrote: > ...off my laptop, that is. > > After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop > (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so > (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help > much. > > Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to > go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. > > Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. > > Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? > > TIA > > Colin > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADHpel4cZwpbv7iIRAuV6AJ0QdVl+g9aoT4E3nYvxZAIS9hmz+ACeLcA3 uXszmBHj8h3DOZAMXz7Z5Tk= =oJ3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
sorry guys - wrong email I just replied to. Just noticed my mate sent me 20 requests to my tomcat servlet Allan - Original Message - From: "Allan Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SLUG-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft > your machine just sent me its scoreboard about 20 times > > - Original Message - > From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:23 PM > Subject: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft > > > > ...off my laptop, that is. > > > > After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop > (1Ghz > > / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so > (video > > frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. > > > > Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to > go > > and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. > > > > Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. > > > > Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? > > > > TIA > > > > Colin > > > > ___ > > Scottish mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
your machine just sent me its scoreboard about 20 times - Original Message - From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:23 PM Subject: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft > ...off my laptop, that is. > > After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz > / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video > frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. > > Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to go > and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. > > Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. > > Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? > > TIA > > Colin > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
...off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback. Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless. Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory? TIA Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
