On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:13:43PM -0400, Bill Sheehan wrote:
Hi Doug,
Simple - I just put it in my /etc/init.d/boot.local
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd
I wanted to offer up my experience today since I just installed a DVD into my laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000, 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, Nvidia Geforce2go 32MB, running SuSE 8.0. I've used Xine 0.9.7 in the past on another laptop and had good performance so my first try today was with the latest version of Xine, 0.9.10. Although I had no problems installing everything, I could not get DVDs to play correctly, getting something about an error reading the MRL. I was going to try 0.9.7 again but instead decided to give Ogle a try. I downloaded the Red Hat RPMs from the Ogle site and they installed in reasonable places without complaint. One nice thing about ogle is that it has fewer packages than Xine. Here are the packages I downloaded: libdvdcss2-1.2.1-1plf.i586.rpm libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1.src.rpm libxml2-2.4.12-1.i386.rpm ogle-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm ogle-gui-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm I did not install the libxml2 rpm since it was already installed on my system. I fired up ogle and it was able to play one of my DVD movies although the performance was only about 19-21 frames per second, a little erratic. Then, I turned dma (the -X34 for mode2 may or may not help): hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc After DMA was on, I got the full 24 frames per second and it works great. So, for now, I can highly recommend the latest ogle. It's a little easier to set up than Xine due to fewer packages. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Linux soldat -- 8.0 SuSE panzer division Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net