You would probably get much better video using X4.0.x

DRI should make for a better video experience.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy71 at yahoo.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] DVD under linux


> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Doug wrote:
>
> > hahahaha that's great! I bought a creative dvd drive about 4 months ago
and
> > had it blue screen a win2k box so bad it required a reinstall (yes it
hosed
> > everything somehow). I got it working after playing with winme for about
an
> > hour and it works good, although I've been wanting to try it on linux
but I
> > didn't want to somehow royally screw that box up in the process. What
drive
> > and distro are you using? And how smooth is the video?
>
> I'm using a Afree DVD drive (super generic) and a hacked up version of
> Redhat 6.2.  X3.3.6, kernel 2.4.4.  The video is super choppy because
> A) my crappy video card and B) my crappy CPU.  It may just be that I'm the
> exception not the rule on this (I have a lot of weird hacked libraries on
> my system, your results may vary).  One thing that excited me is that the
> HOWTO is VERY short considering the "supposed complexity" of DVD and yet
> it's damn near idiot proof to get it working.
>
> -Brian
>
>
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