using DSL as JUST a DVD Player

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: using DSL as JUST a DVD Player
started by: lcohen999

Posted by lcohen999 on Nov. 23 2004,19:34

Hi all

I have a dell laptop, and I would love to setup a simple little partition in linux which will just boot, slow down the processor via SpeedStep and then run mplayer DVD player

I don't need xwindows installed or anything

can DSL do this easily or will I be struggling?

thanks!

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 23 2004,19:53

Absolutely...you could even remaster it to run you mp3 from CD as well....imagine it...no need for a HD for your music!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by lcohen999 on Nov. 23 2004,19:55

what about SpeedStep, I hear it is not yet available on DSL?

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 23 2004,19:58

Thats what remastering could do for you...
Perhaps a speedstep MyDSL might work...but I think it has to be a loadable module

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by lcohen999 on Nov. 23 2004,20:00

the question is, where to find this module...

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 23 2004,21:49

it might be located on the knoppix cd.

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by lcohen999 on Nov. 24 2004,01:51

I'm kind of a newbie to this....anymore direction would be very helpfull!

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 24 2004,03:45

OK.

DSL versions 0.8.x are based on the KNOPPIX livecd version 3.4 dated 5-17-2004

If this livecd contains some support for speedstepping, then it is possible that the support was also included into DSL. If not, it is possible to add this support to DSL by copying the appropriate files over from the KNOPPIX disk using a method like a myDSL extension.

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,09:47

* looks on packages.debian.org *

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,09:51

http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/cpufreqd looks interestring, maybe you should download, i think all the deps are catered for by dsl, you just need the 1 deb package and you are away, it would be an easy one to make a mydsl of and at 44k it could easily be included in the iso *hint hint john!!*

Posted by skaos on Nov. 24 2004,10:52

You could also take a look at < http://movix.sourceforge.net/. > They also have a links page (http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/links.html) with multimedia distros.

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 25 2004,17:02

that looks like quite a good site