Re: error trying to boot on a pismo
Ethan Benson wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:19:20AM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
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> > well I was also kind of wondering, does the pismo have any dedicated
> > hardware for dvd decoding or anything in it,
The Rage128 family has some of the best support for MPEG2 playback.
> > though I noticed playing said dvd in macos, if I did anything else at all,
> > even changing the volume, it made the dvd lag and jump and skip, so maybve
> > it was all being done on the cpu.
AFAIK this is really the case. Shame on Apple. At least now with 128 megs of
RAM the movies run smoothly as long as I don't do anything unusual (like move
the mouse :)...
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
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