Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I ran into this same thing when I was setting up my media center. I resolved it by changing the version of mplayer I was using to a more optimized version (from 386 to 686) and am currently using mplayer-nogui 1.0-pre7 which has been working quite wel

Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver

Hi, DMA is enabled as far as I can see. hdparm report "Capabilities" as : DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5*udma6 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns dmesg shows : ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33

Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver

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 mo

Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver

Is the DVD drive running in DMA mode? Almost certainly is, but worth a quick check of dmesg. --John 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 RI