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On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:05, Lamont wrote:
> If you are referring to the skips that happen while watching DVDs then=20
> the problem could be that you need to enable DMA. I had the same problem=20
> with Mplayer in Knoppix on my Toshiba laptop. I'm not where I can look=20
> up the solution right now but, if you go to the Knoppix forum and do a=20
> search for DVD and DMA you should be able to find the solution.
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> Watching DVDs now works great.
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> Nathan England wrote:
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> > Well, I'm still fighting my new laptop. I have tried just about everyth=
ing I=20
> > can think of to stop the pauses.=20
> > Originally, I thought it was arts, but I've tried several different ver=
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> > of arts, and that's not it. I've tried building excessively stripped ke=
rnels,=20
> > with and without acpi and that doesn't matter. I have disabled apm on t=
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> > hard drive so it is spinning constantly, but that didn't work.
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> > Finally, tonight, I stumbled apon a solution. Gnome.
> > I installed Dropline Gnome for slackware. DVD's play fine, no pausing,=20
> > everything seems to be quite okay in Gnome.=20
> > So now, do I switch to Gnome, and have to find all the programs to repl=
ace my=20
> > beloved KDE programs, or do I keep trying to figure out what part of KD=
E is=20
> > causing these system hangs every few seconds?
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> > I'm at a loss now. I really hate to abandon all my years of KDE so I ca=
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> > become a Gnome guy. I can't find any good editors like Kate, and I sinc=
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> > love Kmail. Evolution I just can't stand...
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> > Is there anyone that is real familiar with KDE internals that might be =
able to=20
> > tell me what is causing the .25 second hangs every few seconds while in=
 KDE ?
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> > Like, if I watch a DVD with xine, or play Quake3 it will pause and burp=
 every=20
> > few seconds.. I guess hiccup is the right word.
> > In Gnome it doesn't do this. I can only imagine it is something KDE is=20
> > running. I've noticed with top -d .5  'kinit' seems to pop up every oth=
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> > second and immediately goes away. Is it polling for something???
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> > I don't want to give up my Kate. Are there any good replacements for it=
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> > Gnome? I do a lot of perl, c, bash, html, php and other stuff. I love t=
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> > syntax hilighting. Any ideas?
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> > nathan
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> > Nathan England
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> > Arcanum Linux !
> > nathan at the-arcanum.org
> > jabber id: linuxjunkie@jabber.earth.li
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> > "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
> > - --Adlai Stevenson
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> > Registered Linux User #189789, Machine #106603
> > www.sincerechoice.org
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> > Todays Fortune:
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> > If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
> > 		-- Maslow
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