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Posted: April 17 2006,22:28 QUOTE
ok i downloaded the codepak.dsl and it worked the dvd now plays, but its realy skipy and drops to many frames, is there anyway i can speed up my system so i can watch dvd's cleanly? i only had xine open when playogn the dvd, will uninstalling progrmas i dont use speed it up enough to get dvd's to run cleanly? if not do u got any other ideas?
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Posted: April 18 2006,03:19 QUOTE
Uninstalling applications will help only if those apps are installed into ram, such as mydsl apps added to a live CD or frugal.

Try turning on dma for your DVD drive (sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/XXX or use the "dma" boot parameter)

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Posted: April 18 2006,03:36 QUOTE
Your system specs may be something to consider. What is it's speed, memory, etc?
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Posted: April 18 2006,22:47 QUOTE
i am not exactly sur eof my system specs, i have an IBM thinkpad 600e and i am pretty sure it hasnt been upgraded.
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Posted: April 19 2006,00:36 QUOTE
I used to have a 600E and it was 800Mhz, 256Mb RAM.

If you are running a current version of DSL, you can:

Right click on desktop to get the menu, go to System -> System Stats

A window will pop up and tell you all kinds of neat stuff, including (but not limited to): CPU speed and type, memory, version of DSL, etc.

That said, my 600E did not have a DVD drive, so I can not say how well it did playing DVD's. Sorry.
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