[Preston] DVD playing

[Richard Revis]

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On Tuesday 10 Feb 2004 8:41 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote:

> I gave 2.6 another whirl this afternoon. I was thrown for a while as it
> needs all that QT stuff to get the GUI, but after that I was quite
> impressed with the new look config.

Pah, real men use menuconfig. Well, no, I guess they use a hex editor or 
something even distaining config files, but those guys are nutters.

There is a gnome one included too, try make gconfig instead of xconfig.

> I couldn't get it to work with my
> NVIDIA graphics card though. I had a quick surf and it looks like it's a
> known issue that, with some hacks here and there, is fixable by applying
> some diffs. But I'm taking the easy way; I'm back on 2,4 until someone
> makes it straightforward.

It was pretty painless with a Nvidia GF 4 4800 - just upgrade kernel, 
reinstall nvidia driver package. Gentoo autodetects which kernels you are 
using and compiles the right links :o)

Mind you, as far as I can see 2.4.24 and the low latency patches are about as 
good as 2.6.1 anyway - both machines here are still fully responsive at 100% 
load. That'll probably change in the future though as backports to 2.4 will 
start to concentrate on server and security stuff rather than 
desktop/interactivity stuff. Another year and moving for desktop users will 
be more or less inevitable.

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