[Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

[Gavin McCord]

Kyle Gordon wrote:

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>Colin
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>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/
>xxxx on it's own will show the current state of the device.
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>My Celeron 1.2Ghz, 128Mb laptop played back DVDs fine with mplayer, so I doubt 
>it's a memory/horsepower issue.
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>Regards
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>Kyle
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>On Monday 19 January 2004 23:23, Colin McKinnon wrote:
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>>...off my laptop, that is.
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>>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.
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>>Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to
>>go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback.
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>>Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless.
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>>Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory?
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>>TIA
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>>Colin
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Make sure the kernel has support for your motherboard chipset in it. I 
created a custom kernel recently and tried hdparm till I was blue in the 
face, until I compiled in the right driver.