Kaffeine playback jerky

[Martin Laberge]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 08:32:57 Knapp wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 September 2008 2:28:32 am Knapp wrote:
> >> > Here Billie, Add Option "VideoOverlay" "on"  to your xorg.conf file. Here
> >> > is an example of mine:
> >> >
> >> > Section "Device"
> >> >         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
> >> >         Option          "VideoOverlay"  "on"
> >> >         Driver          "fglrx"
> >> >
> >> > Then restart your X server or reboot your computer. You shouldn't have
> >> > any choppy video now.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > David M.
> >>
> >> Would this work with Nvidia too? What does it do?
> >
> > I'm not completely sure. I have never owened an Nvidia. I watch a lot of
> > guitar instructional videos and I was having all the jerky problems as knapp
> > describe.
> 
> I did not post that. Just asked about nvidia.
> 
> > You also may need to set DMA but I wanted to take it a step at a time so
> > nobody gets confused.
> >
> > David M.
> 
> BTW the dma command does not work on my computer, all I get is this.
> What is iocti?? It is just an IDE dvd burnner on 8.04 and yes that is
> the right device; scd0.
> 
> sudo hdparm /dev/scd0
> douglas at frog:/$ sudo hdparm /dev/scd0
> [sudo] password for douglas:
> 
> /dev/scd0:
>  IO_support    =  0 (default)
> 16-bit)
>  HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  readonly      =  0 (off)
>  readahead     = 256 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> 
> -- 
> Douglas E Knapp
> 
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> 

Try with     

sudo sdparm /dev/scd0

sdparm is the pendent of hdparm for scsi bus



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