[nzlug] Xine on Fedora 8: does it work for anyone?

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Sat, 03-May-2008 at 06:14PM +1200 (give or take), Simon Bridge wrote:


|> AFAIK: the "radeon" driver does not support your card - which suggests
|> you are using VESA.

Correct.  It's a very short config file compared to others I've seen.


|> 
|> If you enable the "livna" repo, you can install the "fglrx" driver with
|> YUM.
|> 
|> yum install kmod-fglrx
|> 
|> See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
Where it says:

Become root: 
su -
Install the driver: 
yum install kmod-fglrx
Shut down X: 
init 3
Log in as root.
Enable the driver: 
fglrx-config-display enable

I assume that logging out of X and using a console instead of the init
3 business.  Am I correct?

[....]

|> > Thanks for that tip: it was very informative.  It tells me I should
|> > try xine-ui, but there doesn't seem to be an rpm at the Livna
|> > repository.  I notice on my Mepis machine, there is a package of that
|> > name.  What does one do for an rpm equivalent?
|> > 
|> yum clean all
|> yum update
|> yum install xine-ui


# yum install xine-ui

Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Requested dep: xine-ui is provided by installed package
Nothing to do

That would indicate that the livna packages are something not quite
like what the Xine people have in mind (assuming that's the xine-check
people also).


|> It's just a GUI.
|> Presumably it had other suggestions - such as enabling DMA?

[ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI.
         This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation.
         If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely
         to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this.
         However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is
         disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable
         DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance
         loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution)


Something is incomplete in that hint.

best

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