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

[Simon Bridge]

On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:22 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> 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.
> 
Of course, another option is just to disable compositing.

> |> 
> |> 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?
> 
That's right - now try: "glxinfo | grep rend"
Enter "man fglrx" for the options available to you. I think you need
"option glx on" in device and "dri 666" in server. But I haven't checked
- it's a good learning exercise for you ;)

> [....]

> # 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).
> 
Enter "xine-ui" into a console.

> 
> |> 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.

Nope - it's telling you what has been suspected: DMA is not active.
ATAPI support for optical drives is pretty good now, scsi emulation
should not be needed.

You probably have a "hdc=ide-scsi" in your menu.lst ... remove it.
Re-run xine-check and it will have advice about turning on DMA.