I don't understand why I can't get my K6-2 400MHz, and Rage IIC greaphics card to give good playback. In the DVD howto I see that you need io ctrl in the Kernel. Could it be that I do't have this feature enabled? Is it really that critical.
I guess I want to know what is the likely weakest link in my setup as I really know nothing about hardware. Tom > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. For > film-source DVDs you want 72Hz or 96Hz refresh so you > need a RAMDAC of 82MHz or 110MHz respectively. The other > consideration for video cards is that it really must have > an implementation of Xvideo for XFree86, hardware color > space conversion, hardware scaling, and it must have > enough video memory bandwidth to convert/scale at > 1024x768/16. > > Briefly: you need at least a Matrox Millenium (c. 1995). > > Regarding the rest of the system, any 350MHz+ CPU with a > vector math unit will work. Pentium II/III/IV, Celeron, > Duron, K6, Athlon, G4 should be fine. Once you get to > zero dropped frames, there isn't a lot of point in piling > more hardware on. > > -jwb
