i know this was just posted up but... it really sounds like the dvd isn't running in DMA mode. i had this problem on my thinkpad at first, dvd would be choppy as you suggest, music i played would also be. fixed it by enabling DMA on the drives - in my case it was actually using the wrong kernel module for the drives.
check the output of dmesg (as suggested by another) or the output of hdparm -I hope this helps. Takis On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:56 -0400, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > On my Dell Insprion 9400 (1.83 Ghz dual core with 256Mb ATI Radeon > x1400) DVD playing is much slower (choppy infact) as compared to > my ancient 900 Mhz Athlong with RIVA TNT !. > This problem occurs wether I use the XFree86 Vesa driver or > the Proprietary ATI fglrx-driver. I configured the latter > with aticonfig --initial and even tried aticonfig --ovt Xvideo > after that. xine-check reports that my video card does not > support "yv12 overlays" and hence DVD playing will be very > CPU intensive . > Any suggestions ? > > b thomas > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
