Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:13:27AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote Before I send off my dead machine to the re-cycling centre, would a Radeon 7000 be better supported? I can pull that card from the dead machine and try it out. you should definitely try it. The elderly radeon cards

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:27, Walter Dnes wrote: Radeon X300 is PCI-Express, so the slots are probably different. Strange, but true. I can get the Radeon 7000 into my 6-year-old Dell's AGP slot, but I can't get the old Rage Pro into the newer dead machine's AGP slot, not that it

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote does xine also have a speed problem? If yes: I don't have xine loaded. I've had problems building it in the past. mplayer has been trouble-free. could you please post xorg.conf/Xorg.0.log? Maybe they contain somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote does xine also have a speed problem? If yes: I don't have xine loaded. I've had problems building it in the past. mplayer has been trouble-free. could

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:47:38PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote you have to load dri in the modules section first (and glx maybe too). BUT from your log: your card is to new for dri/render, so it falls back to some.. I don't know-mode ;) The log file now says... (**) RADEON(0): PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 08 September 2005 05:58, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:47:38PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote you have to load dri in the modules section first (and glx maybe too). BUT from your log: your card is to new for dri/render, so it falls back to some.. I don't

[gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
I'm running an AMD64 3000+ with 2 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon X300. It's dropping frames on internet TV sites where it should easily be able to keep up. I've built mplayer with mmx/mmxext/3dnow/3dnowext/sse/sse2 so I don't see any room for speedup there. I can get -vo sdl and -vo xv to work,

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Wednesday 07 September 2005 03:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running an AMD64 3000+ with 2 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon X300. It's dropping frames on internet TV sites where it should easily be able to keep up. I've built mplayer with mmx/mmxext/3dnow/3dnowext/sse/sse2 so I