Re: Multimedia Performance
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I
> applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but
> they're not as good as they were on Mandrake. I still get brief clicks in
> my audio, and trying to play 3 videos at a time, they all drop frames and
> the system response slows to a crawl. Strangely, plaympeg won't play in
> full screen mode any more, either. Using xawtv to watch TV on my
> bt878-based TV card isn't quite as good, either.
>
> My question: could the difference be the pentium optimizations in the
> Mandrake binaries? If so, what might be the key pieces of software that I
> should recompile to get similar performance? If not, any ideas what the
> difference might be?
>From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make
much difference.
You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode
$hdparm /dev/hda
because this is what the patch is ment for. I don't need the IDE-patch
on my Athlon-system, I just do a "hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda" in my boot
scripts and it works.
Phil
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