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I had a problem with DVD speed on my Thinkpad, and other PCs, until I
enabled DMA on the DVD player.  Up until the latest release of SUSE,
which I us, it disabled DMA on CD/DVDs by default.  It may not have any
bearing on your issue, but if you haven't checked it, it's worth a
look.

-jt
 

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&gt;&gt;&gt; Bob Toxen &lt;transam at verysecurelinux.com&gt; 09/15/05 12:28 pm &gt;&gt;&gt; 
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:13:43PM - 0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
&gt; On Wed, 2005- 09- 07 at 14:54 - 0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
&gt; &gt; All,
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; I got Xine working (sort of) at about 4am; Ogle wouldn't play my
Dilbert
&gt; &gt; or Trek IV disks!
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; However, Xine cannot run fast enough for normal video or sound.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; The xine_check made some suggestions for performance improvement,
such as
&gt; &gt; adding Kernel MTRR support, X YV12 Overlay support, customizing X
for
&gt; &gt; my hardware (IBM Thinkpad R31), etc.  The R31 seems to have fast
display
&gt; &gt; hardware and has a 1.2 GHz Celeron.

&gt; Very strange, Bob. My T20 has a 700MHz P3 and 256 MRAM and it plays
&gt; DVD's full screen with no problems. However, a celeron is a bit
slower
&gt; on the decompression but your 1.2GHz should still be faster than
&gt; my .7GHz P3.
THANKS for that.  That tells me that it should work well once I verify
that I'm doing DMA and have tweaked X.

&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Will these improvements likely get sufficient speed for normal
play?

&gt; The biggest slowup I've seen yet has been running X in the frame
buffer.
&gt; It is simply too generic to have any speed to it. Make sure you are
&gt; running the i810 module. 
I'll have to set this up.  I've not needed fast graphics before.

&gt; &gt; Recommendations?

&gt; No flame war intended here, but if I know Bob like I think I do,
that
&gt; laptop probably has Slackware on it. Slack is great for servers
(Bob's
&gt; specialty) but is not as terrific in the userland, graphics
intensive
&gt; world of games and multimedia. There is a big advantage to the
Fedora
&gt; series that Slack doesn't have: Freshrpms.org  That is a great
&gt; repository of cutting edge multimedia stuff built for use on Fedora
&gt; systems. There is also an apt- get repository of the same stuff as
well
&gt; so Debian users can feel to love as well :)
You know me!  It is Slackware and I don't want to change unless I
absolutely
have no choice but DVD movies have become important to me.  I'll
report
back to ALE when I have resolved this.

&gt; And there's Dag's site that also provides cutting edge stuff
primarily
&gt; for RedHat based systems like Fedora.
Thanks.

&gt; Even if you stick with slackware, the src.rpm's would provide some
&gt; heavy- duty info on what tools to upgrade. 
Compiling X?  Now that's scary.

&gt; &gt; Do I need to switch from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel (which I don't want
to
&gt; &gt; bother with)?

&gt; There is better graphics subsystems support in 2.6.x although it is
&gt; supposed to be backported to 2.4.28+
Thanks.

&gt; &gt; Can someone advise on how I can customize X for the R31 hardware?

&gt; Make sure you are using the i810 module. I don't know if there is an
&gt; i830 out yet but if so, you will need to be using xorg and not
XFree86.
&gt; That is a lot of compile time fun.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Thanks very much,
&gt; &gt; Bob Toxen,
&gt; &gt; Server geek who is week on multimedia stuff
Bob

&gt; Hope it helps.
&gt; (server geek who builds render farms for fun and tinkers with
graphics
&gt; as a hobby)
&gt; (P.S. Any one have a 12kBTU room air conditioner they want to sell?
When
&gt; I turn on the craylinked origin's the 5kBTU POS can't handle the
load.)
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:00:16AM - 0400, James P. Kinney III
wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; Hi Bob,
&gt; &gt; &gt; (Different Jim here...)
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; I have a DVD drive in both of my Thinkpad T20's. I can play DVD
movies
&gt; &gt; &gt; using Ogle, Xine and mplayer. In fact, it makes long car trips
with the
&gt; &gt; &gt; kids quite tolerable :) Be sure to install libdvdcss to decode
the
&gt; &gt; &gt; (feeble and annoying) encryption in commercial DVD movies.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; I don't have burner capability on either laptop but I do on
other
&gt; &gt; &gt; systems. I have had consistent success using k3b to create DVD
data
&gt; &gt; &gt; archives as well as bootable DVD disks. It is quite possible to
create
&gt; &gt; &gt; the same CD/DVD's using mkisofs and cdrecord as they are the
underlying
&gt; &gt; &gt; tools of k3b (and gcombust and xcdroast), but burning the
occasional
&gt; &gt; &gt; disk as opposed to burning repetitive, custom ones from a script
works
&gt; &gt; &gt; well with k3b.
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