Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

2004-01-20 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

2004-01-20 Thread Daragh Mc Grath
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

Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

2004-01-20 Thread Gavin McCord
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