On 25 Oct, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 00:19, Michel Lanners wrote: > >> - make the iDCT and motion compensation of the ATI chip available under >> Linux. Single most usefull improvement. > > Unfortunately, it's also the least likely to happen.
What was the problem again? I uderstand it is lack of documentation, but what exactly is holding ATI back? They did make the documentation for the other features available, after all. >> Also for comparison, a Celeron 600 with an ATI Mach64 (Mobility M1, >> really), using the Gatos Xv-enabled drivers, with MTRR set, plays smooth >> DVD at 30%-40% CPU usage. Keep in mind that CPU provides MMX >> acceleration which is heavily used for DVD playback. > > How do you measure the CPU usage? Yeah, lame top ;-) > Peter Surda suggests that top doesn't > tell the whole truth. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost his mail > explaining how to get more accurate numbers, but it should be found on > Xpert or l-k. Maybe run it under time? Doesn't give absolute CPU usage, but at least it can do comparison. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
