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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