[ale] ThinkPad sound working

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Sep 8 08:52:50 EDT 2005


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:54 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> 
>>All,
>>
>>I got Xine working (sort of) at about 4am; Ogle wouldn't play my Dilbert
>>or Trek IV disks!
>>
>>However, Xine cannot run fast enough for normal video or sound.
>>
>>
>>The xine_check made some suggestions for performance improvement, such as
>>adding Kernel MTRR support, X YV12 Overlay support, customizing X for
>>my hardware (IBM Thinkpad R31), etc.  The R31 seems to have fast display
>>hardware and has a 1.2 GHz Celeron.
> 
> 
> Very strange, Bob. My T20 has a 700MHz P3 and 256 MRAM and it plays
> DVD's full screen with no problems. However, a celeron is a bit slower
> on the decompression but your 1.2GHz should still be faster than
> my .7GHz P3.

Make sure dma is turned on for the drive.  man hdparm

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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