Re: Advice requested

mike hoy wrote:

> tried mepis live cd and sound failed. mepis 2004.03


Mike, I thought I had this problem too when I first installed Mepis on
my laptop. Turned out that the sound was turned off in KDE, which is
kind of a dumb default for an install, but there it was. I turned on the
sound in KDE and had no problem after that.

>
>
> mike hoy
>
> volinaz@cox.net wrote:
>
>> 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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