Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
which player are you using? what else is running? whats cpu usage like? Dean Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is this an issue with the amd64 arch, or something else? I have an AMD 5600+ cpu paired with an Nvidia 7600 GS card, which strikes me as more than adequate to work with a DVD (my older XP

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 00:51 -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: are you using compiz/beryl/XGL? None of the above, though I couldn't find beryl/xgl (xgl is apparently part of a few other packages) you should not have problems with that hardware... glx is working? Don't know how to tell.

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 15:52 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: which player are you using? I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. what else is running? whats cpu usage like? I disabled everything else including xscreensaver, and shutdown folding @home as

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in what the player has to do to get things to work? This would/should make no

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:42AM +, Sam Varghese wrote: The Core 2. I am surprised if an Athlon 64 beat the Core 2 on video encoding. Weird. What codec and encoder program managed that? It's a little fan next to the graphics chip, comes on the motherboard. Once it starts making a

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:05:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I don't see anything that would be inherently a no-go with linux but I do know from reading this list that wifi is interesting. make sure its covered. I didn't see wifi on the list. IIRC, the difference between M2N-SLI

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:20:35AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: IIRC, the difference between M2N-SLI Deluxe and the M2N32-SLI Deluxe is that the 32 includes wifi onboard. The M2N32-SLI is an nforce 590, while the M2N-SLI is a 570. That means the 32 has dual 16x slots, while the other

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:03:40PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote: If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed choice. It may be Ubuntu, but it is the GNU/Linux sale that counts. That particular offer comes only with xp home (not vista, and xp pro is an add on cost). I think

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. xine perhaps? Although mplayer tends to work too. I disabled everything else including xscreensaver, and shutdown folding @home as well.

Xephyr on AMD64 Etch a.k.a multiseat

2007-06-08 Thread Igor TAmara
Hi, I'm following this howto[1] to make a multiseat system on AMD64, I saw there were precompiled binaries for Xephyr, and I started to create some packages with apt-get source applying the patches on that page[1] 1.http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Multiterminal_with_Xephyr The steps I followed to

Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Certainly not, I had only bad experiences with all-in-one systems. Dell is probably better than Fujitsu-Siemens but I'd rather have standard components, for a desktop computer. But... The budget we have might be enough to also

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:08:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. I don't know your board. My EN7300GT Silent does the mpeg conversion in hardware

Re: Xephyr on AMD64 Etch a.k.a multiseat

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:14:38AM -0500, Igor TAmara wrote: Hi, I'm following this howto[1] to make a multiseat system on AMD64, I saw there were precompiled binaries for Xephyr, and I started to create some packages with apt-get source applying the patches on that page[1]

Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system

2007-06-08 Thread Karl Schmidt
Instead of Dell, you might consider someone like LAC http://laclinux.com They sell nothing but Linux installed on computers _AND_ they will pre-install the real Debian! I haven't bought from them, but plan to. Geary there did help me for free with a AMD kernel issue a few years ago. While I

Re: Xephyr on AMD64 Etch a.k.a multiseat

2007-06-08 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
I do a few atemps but not really success... If you have multiple video cards listen ti Lennart... If you have only one video card Xephyr seems the right option, and I suggest try first with the original patched code in a chroot, If I understand clearly the trick is configure NOT MOUSE to X

Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system

2007-06-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Certainly not, I had only bad experiences with all-in-one systems. Dell is probably better than Fujitsu-Siemens but I'd rather have standard components, for a desktop computer.

Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I'd get an Intel P965 or 975 motherboard, besides some BIOS/MTRR issues with 4 and 8GB of memory, they work very well. Well I hope the kernel developers manage to explain to intel what their MTRR setup bugs are in their BIOS so

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:03 +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in what the player has to do

Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system

2007-06-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I'd get an Intel P965 or 975 motherboard, besides some BIOS/MTRR issues with 4 and 8GB of memory, they work very well. Well I hope the kernel developers manage to explain to intel

IA-32 libraries

2007-06-08 Thread Irene Laiz
Dear all, I'm new to Linux. I've just installed Debian 4.0 on a server based on EA64T architecture. When trying to install the Intel Fortran Compiler, the installation fails because the IA-32 version of the following libraries cannot be found: libstdc++ libgcc glibc Can anyone tell me where to

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:08 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. xine perhaps? Although mplayer tends to work too. Codeine is a frontend to xine, and

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: The results are the same whether on my reader/burner or my read-only drive. Perhaps the DMA part (though dma is apparently configured)? hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma using_dma0

Re: IA-32 libraries

2007-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag 08 Juni 2007 schrieb Irene Laiz: Dear all, I'm new to Linux. I've just installed Debian 4.0 on a server based on EA64T architecture. When trying to install the Intel Fortran Compiler, the installation fails because the IA-32 version of the following libraries cannot be found:

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:47 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:41:33AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ahh. I had not seen this earlier when I scanned your letter briefly before answering someone else's up the list. My result: using_dma 0 0

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:09:43AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Always good to hear... :) The board had a good Linux review when I got it from Newegg. Given the number of updates and problems on lkml for the SB600, I have a hard time believing someone would consider it a good linux board.

[Solved in a round about way] Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:27 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:09:43AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Always good to hear... :) The board had a good Linux review when I got it from Newegg. Given the number of updates and problems on lkml for the SB600, I have a