You would probably get much better video using X4.0.x DRI should make for a better video experience. Tom Veldhouse veldy71 at yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] DVD under linux > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Doug wrote: > > > hahahaha that's great! I bought a creative dvd drive about 4 months ago and > > had it blue screen a win2k box so bad it required a reinstall (yes it hosed > > everything somehow). I got it working after playing with winme for about an > > hour and it works good, although I've been wanting to try it on linux but I > > didn't want to somehow royally screw that box up in the process. What drive > > and distro are you using? And how smooth is the video? > > I'm using a Afree DVD drive (super generic) and a hacked up version of > Redhat 6.2. X3.3.6, kernel 2.4.4. The video is super choppy because > A) my crappy video card and B) my crappy CPU. It may just be that I'm the > exception not the rule on this (I have a lot of weird hacked libraries on > my system, your results may vary). One thing that excited me is that the > HOWTO is VERY short considering the "supposed complexity" of DVD and yet > it's damn near idiot proof to get it working. > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >