[ltp] Ubuntu 8.10 w/ T60p and FireGL 5250

[Bill Moseley]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 08:34:28PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> >I upgraded yesterday and all went smoothly.  Probably easiest upgrade
> >ever on this laptop.
> 
> Glad to hear that. I might try it out on my T60p too...
> How fast is it? (there was a slashdot article 2 days ago, showing 
> benchmarks that, on the same hardware, Ibex is much slower than Feisty)

I have not noticed any difference.  Compiz is probably the most taxing
task that this machine handles and it seems very responsive.  Web
browsing seems fine.  Seems like it would take a lot of benchmarking
of different tasks to really pinpoint any differences.

> >One problem with compiz enabled is I cannot play video in either
> >Mplayer or Totem Movie Player.  Mplayer says:
> >
> >    X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> 
> Can you try playing the the -vo option?
> see:  mplayer -vo help
> 
> At a guess, you haven't enough *video* ram to support all of:
>   - the available pixels
>   - on both screens
>   - in 24-bit colour
>   - with double-buffering for 3D accel (compiz etc)
>   - with (perhaps) more double-buffering for mplayer.

Happens with just the LCD screen (no second monitor).  -vo with x11
works (but no full screen with x11 so not much use).  Maybe it's just xv
related.

> >I tried to setup Ekiga, but it keeps hanging when detecting my
> >microphone.  I am able to record with my built-in mic -- but it's
> >pretty low priority at this time.  I'd like to get video conferencing
> >working, but I'd need a camera.  Not to mention friends that don't use
> >iChat. ;)
> 
> 
> Are you using pulseaudio or not?

I believe so.  I sure wish I understood the audio sub-system better.



> Does stracing it give anything helpful;
> launch from terminal:   strace ekiga

That's kind of brutal.  I'd have to write it to a file (how often does
the app really need to call gettimeofday??? ;)


> 
> Workaround: use the oss mode (/dev/dsp). OSS compat stuff works with 
> pratically everything. The downside is no shared access to the device 
> from multiple programs. You can skip the Ekiga setup "druid", and then 
> manually do the setup: don't detect the mic; tell it where to look.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

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Bill Moseley
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