Kaffeine playback jerky

Pastor JW pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org
Thu Sep 4 16:08:44 UTC 2008


On Thursday 04 September 2008 08:42:11 am Billie Walsh wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 September 2008 2:33:14 am Knapp wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> >>> On 09/03/2008 david wrote:
> >>>>  Lets try this:
> >>>>
> >>>>  go to kmenu->system->hardware drivers manager and disable the ATI
> >>>>  driver and
> >>>>  reboot. then see if you still get choppy video.
> >>>
> >>> Lets just say I'm chicken.
> >>>
> >>> How can the desktop work if the drivers for the video card are
> >>> disabled?
> >>>
> >>> I worry about digging myself into a hole I can't climb out of.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
> >>
> >> Worst case is you loose X and have no gui. Do you have a second
> >> computer that lets you read emails? If not get links or elinks or
> >> whatever someone here thinks is the best CLI HTML web browser. Then if
> >> you do loose X you can still get on the web to tell us we are a bunch
> >> of idiots. :-)
> >
> > LOL you're gonna scare the him all the way back to winder land.
> >
> > David M.
>
> Taint likely. I keep windows around so when I get frustrated with some
> problem [ usually caused by me - ID Ten T error ] I can boot into
> windows and remind myself why I switched in the first place. Especially
> if I boot into the Vista partition on my new laptop. A few minutes and
> I'm ready to go back to whatever stupid thing I did and try to figure it
> out.

Have you checked out this thread?  "Kaffeine, Xine and kscd fixed in Hardy 
by /dev/scd0"  Seemed to echo several of your same symtoms.  



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