From: Conor Lennon (clennon at domain accuris.ie)
Date: Wed 04 Sep 2002 - 15:05:46 IST
DMA is not the issue - I've already fixed that.
Thanks
Conor
Hunt, Bryan wrote:
>you have to enable dma on your dvd, redhat doesn't turn it on by default
>PS: this can (temporarily fuck your system up)
>
>/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda ( for hard drive )
>/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda ( for cd-rom drive )
>
>here is a page about this stuff
>http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/
>
>
>Regards
>--B
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conor Lennon [mailto:clennon at domain accuris.ie]
>Sent: 04 September 2002 14:56
>To: ilug at domain linux.ie
>Subject: [ILUG] xine-check 'hints'
>
>
>Hi,
>
>playing dvds in xine in linux on my laptop is noticeablt slower than
>playing the smae dvd through windows.
>xine-check produces the following hints.
>I have looked into them, and I can't find out how to fix them.
>I have an Advent 6417 laptop running SuSE 7.3, with XF86 4.1.0
>Any ideas on how to fix these issues?
>Thanks
>Conor
>
>[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YUV overlays.
> That means xine will have to to color space transformation and
>scaling
> in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
> X server will help here.
> If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
> http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
> press <enter> to continue...
>
>[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support packed YUV overlays.
> That means xine will have to to color space transformation and
>scaling
> in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
> X server will help here.
> If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
> http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
> press <enter> to continue...
>
>[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
> XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
> extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
> conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
> If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
> kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles,
>though...
> press <enter> to continue...
>
>
>
>
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