On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci > detects it as: > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon > Xpress 1100 IGP] > > However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a > bit "jumpy" as if the video hardware is not fast enough.
It's pretty hard to believe that the video hardware is the problem. I've played back DVDs on laptop ATI chipsets a decade older than yours and it worked fine. I've currently got a two year old ATI laptop chipset (X300?), and it has no trouble playing DVDs using either the Radeon or the fglrx drive. My guess is the optical drive doesn't have DMA enabled. You may want to check to make sure the XV video overlay support is enabled, but even without it, playing back SD video purely in software shouldn't be a problem on anything with a CPU faster than 500MHz. -- Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
