On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:09, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > I never tried to play DVD under Linux, but they play well under > > > OS-9 and OS-X on my Pismo (G3/400/512Mb) with 8Mb of video RAM > > > (typically through S-Video output to my TV). > > > > > > Never used the modem either, I shall try soon. > > > > OS 9 and X have access to the ATI chip hardware decoding facilities > > (IDCT and MC), we don't. > > I believed that these facilities (hardware DVD decoding assistance) were > present on earlier models (Wallstreet and Lombard?) but had been removed > on Pismo (2000 model with Firewire).
No. Earlier models had a full MPEG2 HW decoder. New models (anything using an r128 or radeon chip actually) has a partial HW decoder facility which does HW IDCT and motion compensation. This part of the chip is not documented by ATI to opensource developers. > > > > > On the Pismo, the modem is on the serial port, that works. On recent > > machines, it's an USB softmodem. We have a driver for it, but it's > > not without problems. > > For now the biggest problem I have is with my Internet provider, it > seems that they use a Windows only protocol for authentication :-( > (I'm still trying to connect under Linux with a plain PC through an > external modem on the serial port, and I live in a >99% Windows area). Hrm... We usually have hacks to be compatible with those craps too ;) Ben.
