Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-05 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:05:05PM +0100, Guillaume Morin wrote: > It depends on their use of Altivec. If they use the Altivec C functions, > you need a recent compiler (gcc 3.1 or later). If they use asm Altivec > functions, all you need is a assembler which supports them (GNU as > has supported t

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-03 Thread Guillaume Morin
Hi Matthew, Dans un message du 03 jan à 13:48, Matthew Yee-King écrivait : > I notice that some media players seem to have altivec acceleration, > e.g. mpalyer, videolan. Is it correct to say you need gcc 3 to take > advantage of altivec acceleration under linux? It depends on their use of Altive

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Yee-King
I notice that some media players seem to have altivec acceleration, e.g. mpalyer, videolan. Is it correct to say you need gcc 3 to take advantage of altivec acceleration under linux? cheers matthew On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:20:37 -0500 Shawn Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian-powerpc@li

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-03 Thread Shawn Powers
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org wrote: Do you use devfs ? Do you use scsi emulation for your cd-burner with cdrecord ? I installed devfsd (still not entirely sure if I needed to) and now, I can play dvds, as root, in both mplayer and ogle. It is too slow, as I read in other's posts -- so I

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-03 Thread Fabrice Medio
pen disc" It quits, and the > commandline output shows "can't stat /dev/dvd" -- and sure enough, > there is no /dev/dvd... > > Things are seldom as simple as I hope -- making a link to /dev/cdrom > called /dev/dvd didnt' do the trick... Are there kernel modules

/dev/dvd

2003-01-02 Thread Shawn Powers
I'm having problems getting my ibook2's dvd player to work... I installed ogle. (I'm running sid with 2.4.20-ben1 kernel, on an original ibook2, atirage128, DVD drive) When ogle starts, if if choose "open disc" It quits, and the commandline output shows "ca