Mike,
 I would not trade it in. I am using a Compaq 1800t which has a pIII 800mhz cpu, and 128mb RAM, and I can play dvd's with no problem. I am also using SuSE 9.1 pro. I would have to say you have other<issues, and I would stop running other  apps in the background while watching movies, as this is an unneeded burden on a system that is already running hot. Laptops were not designed to run "heavy" loads, they are not to replace desktops.....

Mike
> 
> From: mike hoy <mhoy4@cox.net>
> Date: 2005/01/17 Mon PM 08:34:22 EST
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Advice requested
> 
> what i meant about shared ram is of the 512 mb of ram you can choose how 
> much is given to the video card. the video card requires you to dedicate 
> some of your ram otherwise it won't work.
> 
> mike hoy
> 
> der.hans wrote:
> 
> >Am 17. Jan, 2005 schwätzte mike hoy so:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I have a compaq r3000 presario P4 laptop with 512 mb of ram shared to
> >>the ATI radeon video card.
> >>I can't play dvd's. My error: Too Many Video Packets in the buffer. The
> >>sound shuts off and the movie keeps playing.
> >>The sound doesn't work right. It can't work with more than one
> >>application. Ex: gaim and mplayer can't use the sound card at the same time.
> >>
> >>Rather than try to fix this problem I would like to know if I ought to
> >>trade this compaq  for a more linux friendly laptop or should I just
> >>sell it and then buy a used laptop known to work well with linux?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I dislike it when people answer a question different than the one asked,
> >but I'm gonna do it anyway :).
> >
> >First off, I dunno about trading it in, so I'm not much help there.
> >
> >Have you tried to use arts, esd or another sound daemon? The sound daemon
> >would be the only thing talking to the sound card. Sound daemons can
> >listen to multiple applications at the same time, though.
> >
> >The linux laptop howto used to point to a repository of links for people
> >who published their experiences with laptops. Maybe it has some links
> >that'll help you.
> >
> >Don't know about the system and video card sharing RAM.
> >
> >ciao,
> >
> >der.hans
> >  
> >
> 
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